Economic Management under the Presidential System of Government in Turkey: Beyond the Depoliticization versus Repoliticisation Dichotomy

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2021-11-01

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Bedirhanoğlu Toker, Pınar

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Passage to Presidential System of Government in Turkey in 2018 meant a leap in the state’s neoliberal transformation since the 1980s. In the economic field, this led to politicized, centralized and personalized management practices in contrast to the earlier neoliberal mottos of depoliticization, decentralization and institu- tionalization. This article presents a detailed critical analysis of politicized government strategies during the August 2018 currency crisis to highlight class-based historical continuities underlying this shift from depoliticization to repoliticisation. Rethinking Peter Burnham’s arguments on depoliticization, it argues that the turn towards politicization in economic management is indicative of a more fundamental depoliticization process engendered at the level of structured social relations due to enhanced capitalist sub- ordination of state and society by financialisation in Turkey.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992183
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/94772

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Journal Of Balkan And Near Eastern Studies

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https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992183

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P. Bedirhanoğlu Toker, “Economic Management under the Presidential System of Government in Turkey: Beyond the Depoliticization versus Repoliticisation Dichotomy,” Journal Of Balkan And Near Eastern Studies, vol. 0, pp. 1–18, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2021.1992183.