The Empire of Authoritarian Leaders
Zafer Yılmaz is Associate Professor at Ankara University and a research fellow at Alice Salomon Hochschule in Berlin. He has published widely on populism, authoritarian rule, and the authoritarian restructuring of the Turkish state in both academic journals and collective volumes. Among his books are Yeni Türkiye’nin Ruhu: Hınç, Tahakküm, Muhtaçlaştırma (The Spirit of New Turkey: Resentment, Domination and Destitution), Erdoğan’ın Başkanlık Rejimi: İstisnai Cumhuriyetten Parsellenmiş Devlete (Erdogan’s Presidential Regime: From Exceptional Republic to Parcelled State), and Sağın Kasveti, Otoriter Liderler ve Çalınan İsyan (The Gloom of the Right: Authoritarian Leaders and the Stolen Rebellion, which interrogate the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey and beyond.
