Continuity and Change in Public Policy: Redistribution, Exclusion and State Rescaling in Turkey

Bayirbag M. K.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, cilt.37, sa.4, ss.1123-1146, 2013 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 37 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2013
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/1468-2427.12000
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1123-1146
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: state rescaling, systemic crises, exclusion, redistribution, Turkey, UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT, CHILD-CARE, SCALE, TRANSFORMATION, REVOLUTION, POLITICS
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.