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Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP) Convegno 2023, Genoa, Italy, 14 - 16 September 2023
In this paper, it is proposed an alternative modeling for the analysis of bloc politics inspired by the uniqueness of Turkish case: More than electoral cooperation and less than governmental coalition. The research motivation and question is to describe the operation of current Turkish politics by political parties. Though the recent regime (government system) change in Turkey is the case, the focus is the theoretical elaborateness in this presentation. The model simply is an application of team games into the recent bloc politics in Turkey; like a football match. Configuration, strategies and distribution of power between the partners of each team have importance as much as the external components and rules of the match and the comparative advantage between the teams (blocs). Common identities prove equal gravity with the search of new identity formations. The last presidential and parliamentary elections of 2023 proved the consistency and success of the proposed model. Not forgetting, the model here bears on the qualitative method for data gathering and analysis, while the bloc politics worths to be studied due to its demonstration on collaboration skills between political actors in a system. The reason behind the submission of this paper presentation to this panel is its conceptual focus rather than a tendency of a popular case implementation. Lastly, the references in the literature attaches the following studies: Mair (2001), Bale (2003), Grunberg & Schweisguth (2003), Pedersen & Thomsen (2005, 2011), Mudde (2014), Forestiere et.al. (2009) and Bilgin (2019).