Democracy in a globalised world: Case study of the Gezi Park protests

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Maxwell Phillis

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This article considers the democratising influence of globalisation on states and individuals. Highlighting the contested definitional scope of globalisation, it presents a detailed analysis of competing explanatory frames and explains their influence on attempts to assess the democratising influence of globalisation. It applies these theoretical frames to a case study of the 2013 Gezi Park protests in Turkey, demonstrating mixed support for both models. It concludes by presenting a partial way forward for overcoming the limitations observed in the transformationalist understanding of globalisation and distributed decision-making.

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