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

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2013-07-01

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Bayırbağ, Mustafa Kemal

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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.

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Development, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35435

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH

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https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12000

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Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Article

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M. K. Bayırbağ, “Continuity and Change in Public Policy: Redistribution, Exclusion and State Rescaling in Turkey,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, pp. 1123–1146, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35435.