Independence and accountability of independent regulatory agencies: the case of Turkey

Çetin, Tamer; Sobacı, Mehmet Zahid; Nargeleçekenler, Mehmet

doi:10.1007/s10657-013-9432-x

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“…The bureaucratic apparatus' lack of autonomy vis-à-vis political leadership is a defining trait of the Turkish state's internal structure. 57 This has continued to be the case during the 2000s -within the context of the independent regulatory agencies 58 and the economic bureaucracy. 59 In this respect, the AKP's intervention to key innovation agencies has not only represented a continuum with the past, but also reflected the overall tendency in domains other than STI.…”

Section: The Question Of Bureaucratic Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

Neo-developmentalist turn in the global political economy? The Turkish case

Kutlay

Karaoğuz

2017

Turkish Studies

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The 2008 global economic crisis galvanized the debate on neo-developmentalism as the pendulum of economic thinking began to swing away from neoliberalism. The current shift in the modalities of market governance mainly deals with the ways through which industrial policies can be crafted in a more open-economy setting. Accordingly, the post-crisis literature turns a keen eye on the state's developmental role in the research and development (R&D) sector in an age of 'bit-driven' global political economy. On that note, the nature, properties, and limits of state policies of emerging powers in this particular realm are becoming increasingly central but remain an understudied theme. This article discusses the R&D policies of Turkey from a state capacity perspective and questions the rationale of those policies by linking the state's transformative capacity to the discussions on distributive pressures. Drawing on twenty-one in-depth semistructured interviews, this article assesses Turkey's R&D policies.

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Section: The Question Of Bureaucratic Autonomymentioning

confidence: 99%

Neo-developmentalist turn in the global political economy? The Turkish case

Kutlay

Karaoğuz

2017

Turkish Studies

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“…The IFI‐guided reformism of 1999–2002 had emphasized the importance of the IRAs in fostering regulatory capacity in crucial policy domains from banking to energy (Bakır and Öniş, ; Sönmez, ). Yet especially under the AKP's third term, the IRAs have suffered severe formal and informal political interference, which stifles their impartiality and undermines their capacity (Çetin et al., forthcoming; Özel, ). In fact, despite its well‐codified independence, even the Turkish Central Bank has not been immune from government attempts at undue influence.…”

Section: Political Constraints To Policy Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Development Space in Emerging Countries: Turkey's Conservative Countermovement

Güven¹

2016

Development and Change

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Despite an increasingly flexible global policy context, most emerging countries refuse to venture beyond their pre-existing development strategies. This article contends that domestic political constraints under liberalized markets might preclude policy dynamism in some cases. In particular, it draws attention to the tension between market expansion and social cohesion as a formative influence over policy patterns. This tension is sometimes addressed through a conservative countermovement whereby liberally-oriented governments entice sections of the poor into broad electoral coalitions by employing palliative interventions alongside market-expanding policies. Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is one example. Central to the Turkish case has been the redeployment of the country's historic foreign capital-dependent pattern of growth in the service of selective redistribution and credit-fuelled consumerism. The ensuing deficit-led neoliberal populism assured stable and equitable growth in the extraordinary international and domestic context of the mid-2000s, but proved unfeasible since the global crisis. Even then, this coupling of market and social preferences has become politically so firmly entrenched in time that it now constrains the policy options to address Turkey's developmental impasse.

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“…This independence is never absolute since, after all, agencies are agents, acting on behalf of a principal (but since agents, they could of course pursue their own agenda, Moe 1990). Independence cannot then be the absence of accountability (see also Çetin et al 2016;Maggetti 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%