Change and Continuity under an Eclectic Social Security Regime: The Case of Turkey

Buğra, Ayşe; Candas, Aysen

doi:10.1080/00263206.2011.565145

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“…It would be a mistake to describe the post-1980s period in the Turkish welfare state as an era of welfare state retrenchment. A restructuring of social security (Bugra and Candas, 2011;Yıldırım and Yıldırım, 2011) and the increasing demand for social assistance characterized the welfare regime during the period. These changes resulted in an increase in government spending due to both an increase in claimants and the establishment of new institutions in the social assistance arena.…”

Section: The Proliferation Of Rmas and The Expansion Of Social Assistmentioning

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“…6 Along with the proliferation of RMAs, centralized state actions and provisions at the municipal levels also came about in this environment of increasing need (Göçmen, 2011). Common to social-assistance mechanisms developed both at the central and local level is their charity-like organization supported by the prevailing political atmosphere (Bugra and Candas, 2011;Bugra and Keyder, 2006;Göçmen, 2011). The political dynamics of neo-liberalization and political Islam set the stage for the proliferation of RMAs in the welfare arena through two important mechanisms.…”

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“…Examples of state support for those not covered by one of the social security institutions included: agricultural support policies to sustain the rural population and encumber its migration to urban areas, informal housing support for unofficial settlements within cities and employment opportunities in state economic enterprises (Bugra and Candas, 2011;Bugra and Keyder, 2003). In addition to these informal mechanisms of state support, the predominance of extended families and intra-family support systems shouldered the burden of helping the poor (Kalaycioglu, 2006).…”

Section: The Gap In Social Assistance From Establishment To the 1980smentioning

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“…Contemporary changes in social policy and the ongoing transformations of the social security and social assistance systems in Turkey have become areas of scholarly debate over the last decades (Adar, 2007;Bugra and Candas, 2011;Bugra and Keyder, 2006;Kilic, 2006;Yıldırım and Yıldırım, 2011). While some studies make references to the growing importance of voluntary associations in social welfare, most focus on transformations in the social security and social assistance institutions.…”

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Religion, politics and social assistance in Turkey: The rise of religiously motivated associations

Göçmen

2014

Journal of European Social Policy

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Religiously motivated welfare provisioning has played an increasingly important role in the Turkish social welfare arena over the previous two decades. This paper investigates the society-specific mechanisms behind the contemporary proliferation of religiously motivated associations (RMAs) in Turkey. The historical analysis of the development of the Turkish welfare regime demonstrates that the spread of RMAs cannot be attributed to retrenchments within the welfare state. In fact, the provision of social assistance by central and local state institutions has expanded over the same time period. The paper claims that the rise of RMAs is not only a response to increasing liberalization and economic deregulation, but also an outcome of the rise of religion as a principle line of cleavage within the political sphere.

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Göçmen

2014

Journal of European Social Policy

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“…In terms of PC, JDP's neoliberal welfare regime has allowed party activists and Islamic business to form a network of charity organizations, and assist the party during its electoral efforts. For example, evidence of distribution of consumer goods prior to elections have surfaced in areas in which conservative parties have had low electoral support in the past (Bugra and Candas, 2013). …”

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Party ideology and clientelistic linkage

Tzelgov

Wang

2016

Electoral Studies

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Please cite this article as: Tzelgov, E., Wang, Y.-T., Party ideology and clientelistic linkage, Electoral Studies (2016Studies ( ), doi: 10.1016Studies ( /j.electstud.2016 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.

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Politics and health outcomes: A path analytic approach

Çınaroğlu

2018

Health Planning & Management

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SummarySocial and health policies and political participation are associated with each political tradition related to public health outcomes. However, there is a lack of evidence for the relationship between policy and outcomes. This study seeks to determine the relationship between politics, labour and welfare state indicators, economic inequality, and health outcome indicators. Data to test the model was obtained from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) that belongs to the 81 provinces of Turkey. Path analysis was used to model the associations between policy, labour and welfare states, economic inequality, and health outcomes. To test the goodness of fit of the model, multiple criteria of model fit indices were utilised. The fit of the respecified path analytic model data is good (normed fit index [NFI] is 0.91, comparative fit index [CFI] is 0.92, goodness of fit index [GFI] is 0.91, and adjusted goodness of fit index [AGFI] is 0.93). Study results illustrate a strong relationship between voter partisanship, employment rate, satisfaction from both social security and health services, and life expectancy at birth and mortality. These results represent an important step towards understanding the elusive relationship between policy and health outcomes. Designing socially inclusive policies, considering labour market opportunities, and enhancing the population's well‐being are advisable strategies for policymakers who wish to optimise public health outcomes.

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Change and Continuity under an Eclectic Social Security Regime: The Case of Turkey

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Religion, politics and social assistance in Turkey: The rise of religiously motivated associations

Religion, politics and social assistance in Turkey: The rise of religiously motivated associations

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Politics and health outcomes: A path analytic approach

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