How can we explain the mass appeal and electoral success of Islamist political parties? What are the underlying sources of the Islamist political advantage? Scholars have provided numerous answers to these widely debated questions, variously emphasizing the religious nature of the discourses in Islamist movements, their ideological hegemony, organizational capacity, provision of social services, reputation, and structural factors. However, one key aspect of Islamist movements has been underexplored in the current literature; namely, Islamists’ promises to resolve ethnic questions that remain unresolved in secularist nation-states. In this article, we argue that the extent to which Islamists govern ethnic unrest significantly shapes their electoral success and ability to establish broader hegemony. Based on ethnographic and sociological data, this article explores one particular recent electoral puzzle that reveals the limits of the scholarly literature on Islamist political advantage, examining the ethnic politics of the governing Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) in Turkey.

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治理种族骚乱：政治伊斯兰教和土耳其的库尔德冲突

我们如何解释伊斯兰政党的群众吸引力和选举成功？伊斯兰政治优势的根本来源是什么？学者们对这些广泛争论的问题提供了许多答案，他们不同程度地强调了伊斯兰运动话语的宗教性质、意识形态霸权、组织能力、社会服务的提供、声誉和结构因素。然而，伊斯兰运动的一个关键方面在当前文献中未被充分探索；也就是说，伊斯兰主义者承诺解决世俗主义民族国家中仍未解决的种族问题。在本文中，我们认为伊斯兰主义者控制种族动乱的程度显着影响了他们的选举成功和建立更广泛霸权的能力。根据民族志和社会学数据，Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP) 在土耳其。