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Social Policy Change in Countries without Mature Welfare States: The Case of Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Ayşe Buğra  and
Sinem Adar
Ayşe Buğra
Affiliation:
Boğaziçi University, Bebek, İstanbul, Turkey, bugray@boun.edu.tr
Sinem Adar
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA, sinem_adar@brown.edu
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Abstract

As part of the institutional changes in Turkey since the 1980s that laid down the foundations of a market economy, the transformation of the social security system has recently come on the agenda. This article discusses the possible outcome of this transformation by situating the case of Turkey in the context of the contemporary international social policy environment shaped by neo-liberal globalization.

It is possible to suggest that throughout the world a new system of welfare governance has recently emerged, which is characterized, first, by a novel emphasis on workfare as opposed to welfare. It modifies, second, redistributive action by the state through diverse partnerships between the state, private sector and voluntary initiatives in the provision of social care and public services. The impact of this new system of welfare governance on social policy is especially important in less developed countries where the role of the state in welfare provision is recently being taken more seriously. With the new emphasis on workfare accompanied by the increasing role of non-state actors, the newly introduced social policy measures might not necessarily consolidate the basis of citizenship rights but they might mainly serve to keep under control the socio-economic insecurity aggravated by the expansion of market relations. This observation is of particular significance for the analysis of the contemporary social policy environment in Turkey that this article presents.

Keywords

social policywelfare statesTurkeypovertysocial spending
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 38: Special Issue on Poverty and Social Exclusion , Spring 2008 , pp. 83 - 106
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2008

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