A critical review of the debates on populism : politics of import substitution industrialization or a hegemonic project?

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Eğilmez, Devrim Burcu

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The impact of the World Depression of 1929 and the 2nd World War on many developing countries has been significant in terms of economic and political changes. Among the important transformations, changes in accumulation models, political discourses, balance of class forces and/or political regimes can be mentioned. The main objective of this thesis is to undertake a critical review of the debates centring on the concept of populism in Latin America as well as in Turkey so as to account for these changes. The predominant tendency in these debates has been to establish a correlation between populist policies and/or import substitution industrialisation strategy. In this study it is argued that, the line of thought which tried to analyse the developments in Argentina and Brazil as well as in Turkey from 1929 until the 1980s on the basis of such a correlation does not provide an adequate explanation. Instead, it is proposed that the concept of populism can enhance our understanding to the extent that it is conceived as a hegemonic project.

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Import substitution, Industrial policy, Populism, Industrialisation, Hegemonic projects

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1000330/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13436

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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D. B. Eğilmez, “A critical review of the debates on populism : politics of import substitution industrialization or a hegemonic project? ,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.