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Continuity and Change in Public Policy

Redistribution, Exclusion and State Rescaling in Turkey

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ID4381985
AuthorsMustafa Kemal Bayırbağ (0000-0001-9094-6964, Middle East Technical University, corresponding author), Mustafa Kemal Bayirbağ (SBKY Bölümü İİBF‐A Binası Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Ankara 06800 Turkey)
Year2013
Volume37
Issue4
Pages1123-1146
Publication date2013-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2427.12000
OpenAlexW1909740666
LanguageEN
Citations received31
References cited37

This article discusses potential reasons for the continuities in the broader policy agendas of capitalist states, despite radical shifts in economic policies, by employing the state-rescaling framework. Its main thrust is that, even though centrally designed policy programs mainly aim to give direction to the dynamics of the market economy, the institutional (re)structuring needed to operationalize such policy measures has been shaped around a politics of redistribution, a product both of the exclusionary results of past policies and the negative results of the newly introduced policy programs. This dialectical tension turns state rescaling into a political exercise in solving, and reproducing, 'systemic crises'. The article examines the history of state rescaling in Turkey to develop these arguments

Dialectic · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Operationalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Sociology · Structuring · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Mathematics · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Turkey's Politics and Society · Finance

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Citations per year2,38
Citation span2013 - 2026 (14)
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