Preface -- Atatürk's Achievement: Some Considerations -- Kemalist Ideology -- The Kemalist Regime and Modernization: Some Comparative and Analytical Remarks -- Prelude to Reforms: Mustafa Kemal in Libya -- The Origins of Kemalist Ideology -- Atatürk's Quest for Modernism -- Political Culture and Bureaucracy -- The Political Culture of Kemalist Turkey -- The Impact of Atatürk on Turkey's Political Culture since World War II -- Atatürk and the Civil Bureaucracy -- Continuity and Change in Turkish Bureaucracy: The Kemalist Period and After -- Social and Economic Issues -- Kemalist Views on Social Change -- The Traditional and the Modern in the Economy of Kemalist Turkey: The Experience of the 1920s -- Atatürk's Etatism -- Westernism and Culture -- The Modernization of Education in Kemalist Turkey -- Atatürk's Language Reform as an Aspect of Modernization in the Republic of Turkey -- Atatürk and the Arts, with Special Reference to Music and Theater -- Atatürk's Legacy: Westernism in Contemporary Turkey -- Perceptions of Kemalism -- The Kemalist Reform of Turkish Law and Its Impact -- Kemalism as an Ideology of Modernization.