Özhan Demirkol Editor

Sabri Sayarı is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Sabancı University in İstanbul, Turkey. He has published extensively on parties and party systems, political clientelism and patronage, and political violence.

Pelin Ayan Musil is Senior Lecturer of Politics at Anglo-American University and a Research Fellow at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in the Czech Republic. Her research interests include political parties and democratization.

Özhan Demirkol is Assistant Professor at Ömer Halisdemir University in Niğde and visiting researcher at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His research interests include factionalism, new party formation, party system change, and party finance.