Understanding the Process of Economic Change in Turkey: An Institutional Approach (Economic Issues, Problems and Perspectives)

375 Pages·2010·3.609 MB·English

by  Tamer Çetin (editor), Feridum Yilmaz (editor)

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NDERSTANDING THE ROCESS OF
E C T :
CONOMIC HANGE IN URKEY
AN INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH

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NDERSTANDING THE ROCESS OF
E C T :
CONOMIC HANGE IN URKEY
AN INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH

TAMER ÇETIN AND FERIDUN YILMAZ
EDITORS

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CONTENTS

Preface vii
Contributor List 1
Introduction: The Political Economy of Institutional Change in Turkey 3
Tamer Çetin
Section I. An Institutional Analysis of the General Economic
and Political Endowment in Turkey 13
Chapter 1 Economic Growth and Institutional
Change in Turkey before 1980 15
Sevket Pamuk
Chapter 2 The Role of Institutions over Economic
Change in Turkey 33
Tamer Çetin
Chapter 3 Temporary Star or Emerging Tiger?
Turkey‘s Economic Performance in a Global Setting 53
Ziya Öniş and İsmail Emre Bayram
Chapter 4 Modernity in Transformation:
Turkey under the AKP Governance 85
E. Fuat Keyman
Chapter 5 Deconstructing the Functioning of Political
Manipulation of the Economy in Turkey 103
Mehmet Asutay
Section II. Institutional Lessons from the Process
of Economic Change in Turkey 125
Chapter 6 The Interest Group Theory of Legislation and Trade
Policy in Turkey: A Time Series Study for 1960-2000 127
Dilek Demirbas
vi Contents
Chapter 7 The Quality of Institutions and Multinational
Corporation: The Political Economy of Foreign
Direct Investment in Turkey 143
Devrim Dumludag
Chapter 8 A Political Economy Analysis of the Turkish
Military‘s Split Personality: The Patriarchal
Master or Crony Capitalist? 171
Fırat Demir
Chapter 9 Authoritarian Nationalism and Discrimination
Ending with Immiserising Modernization:
Economic and Social Consequences of the
Republican Power Elite‘s Fight 195
Metin Toprak and Mustafa Acar
Chapter 10 Turkish Industrial Relations: Transformation or a
Non-Fundamental Change? 219
Engin Yıldırım
Section III. Current Issues of the Regulatory Process in Turkey 238
Chapter 11 The Political Economy of Independent
Regulatory Agencies in Turkey 239
Tamer Çetin, Mehmet Zahid Sobaci,
Mehmet Nargeleçekenler
and Erdal Abdulhakimoğulları
Chapter 12 Glass Half Empty? Politics and Institutions
in the Liberalization of the Fixed Line
Telecommunications Industry in Turkey 261
Izak Atiyas and Pinar Dogan
Chapter 13 Institutional Change in the Turkish Energy Markets 285
Tamer Çetin
Chapter 14 Globalization, Development, and
Environmental Policies in Turkey 329
Fikret Adaman and Murat Arsel
Chapter 15 Access to Financial Services in Turkey:
Institutional Barriers and Opportunities 347
Ihsan Isik
Index 365
PREFACE

The institutional endowment of a country determines government‘s regulatory choices,
the public policies, incentives, and the direction of economic activities in the country and the
level of the economic efficiency. The authors use this conceptual framework introduced by
New Institutional Economics to examine how institutional endowment in Turkey influence
economic and political structure. In this context, most elements of institutional endowments
in Turkey are common to all sectors and reforms, (namely, legislative and executive
institutions, nature of the judicial system, bureaucratic structure). They also observe the
political economy of the change in Turkey. For that reason, they observe similarities and
differences in the contests among groups with divergent interests for the different policy
changes and reforms processes. Thus, they introduce a crucial guide for scholars, researchers,
and investors around the world about the political and economic structure in Turkey.

In: Understanding the Process of Economic Change in Turkey ISBN: 978-1-60876-945-2
Editors: T. Çetin, F. Yilmaz, pp. 1-2 © 2010 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

CONTRIBUTOR LIST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

Erdal Abdulhakimoğulları
Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Turkey

Mustafa Acar
Kirikkale University, Turkey

Fikret Adaman
Bogazici University, Turkey

Murat Arsel
International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

Mehmet Asutay
Durham University, UK

İzak Atiyas
Sabanci University, Turkey

İsmail Emre Bayram
European University Institute, Italy

Tamer Çetin
Zonguldak Karaelmas University, Turkey

Fırat Demir
University of Oklahoma, USA

Dilek Demirbas
Newcastle Business School, UK

Pınar Doğan
Harvard University, USA
2 Tamer Çetin
Devrim Dumludag
Marmara University, Turkey

Ihsan Isik
Rowan University, USA

Fuat Keyman
Koc University, Turkey

Mehmet Nargeleçekenler
Uludag University, Turkey

Ziya Öniş
Koc University, Turkey

Sevket Pamuk
Bogazici University, Turkey and London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Mehmet Zahid Sobaci
Uludag University, Turkey

Metin Toprak
Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey

Engin Yıldırım
Sakarya University, Turkey