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ajiss-297	Aslan, Ali	Between Identity and Difference: Turkey’s AK Party and Its Discourse of Conservative-Democracy	2013.0	31	.pdf	application/pdf	13441	570	45	Indeed, authoritarianism and democracy share the same political ground in the sense that both rest on “democratic revolution” – the absence of a tran- scendental source of authority – and popular sovereignty: “[P]ower stems from the people” and yet “it is the power of nobody” (emphasis added).57 The legit- imacy of rule springs from nowhere but the people: “Conservative democracy considers political legitimacy to be based on popular sovereignty and the rule of law, which, in turn, is based on constitutionality and universally accepted norms.”58 Likewise, they champion a distinct form of rule other than author- itarian rule with respect to their acceptance of the democratic political ground and acting in congruence with those democratic procedures and mechanisms: “Conservative democracy favors a limited and defined form of political power.	cache/ajiss-297.pdf	txt/ajiss-297.txt