Cronyism through Financialization: Turkey’s Neoliberal Transformation from Özal to Erdoğan

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Bedirhanoğlu Toker P.

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH, cilt.88, sa.2, ss.359-379, 2021 (SSCI)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 88 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Periodicals Index Online, ABI/INFORM, American History and Life, Business Source Elite, Business Source Premier, Communication & Mass Media Index, EBSCO Legal Source, EconLit, Historical Abstracts, Index Islamicus, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, PAIS International, Philosopher's Index, Political Science Complete, Public Affairs Index, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, DIALNET
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.359-379
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) once hailed rule is criticized today by the ahistoric argument that it revitalized the Turkish state’s rooted cronyism. This article identifies instead the historically specific characteristics of AKP cronyism by comparing it with the cronyism of Özal years within the context of neoliberal financialization processes. It argues that while setting up its crony political Islamist rule thanks to neoliberal institutional “reforms”, the AKP has also served the constitution of capital’s enhanced financialized discipline over the society and state, a discipline that started drawing strict class limits to the party’s own political aspirations since the 2010s.