This book examines the determinants and consequences of policy responsiveness and change, and how policy issues get onto the media and legislative agenda in a transitional democracy. It provides a detailed and attention based theory of Turkish Politics, and develops and introduces comprehensive content-analytics datasets of legislative activities and media coverage that span over several decades.

Alper T. Bulut is Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey. His primary field is comparative politics with a focus on political parties, legislative agenda setting, and policy responsiveness. His work has been published or is forthcoming in journals such as Comparative Politics, Electoral Studies, Party Politics and Parliamentary Affairs.

T. Murat Yildirim is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Media and Social Sciences at University of Stavanger, Norway. His research focuses on themes relating to empirical democratic theory and public policy, such as issue prioritization among political elites and voters, and gender differences in policy preferences. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of European Public Policy, Party Politics and Policy Studies Journal.