Ayse Bugra

• Boğaziçi University

This article explores the relationship between women’s labor market participation and early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Turkey within a broader Mediterranean context. Since the 1990s, there have been significant changes in the familialist models in the Mediterranean region driven by women’s increased labor market participation and the ex...

This article deals with the educational arrangements and the multiple inequalities that they reproduce from a comparative perspective. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in six countries (Austria, Hungary, Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey, and the UK) as part of a multinational research project concerning justice in Europe, the article explores...

Bu rapor İstanbul’da çalışanların COVID-19 salgının ilk döneminden (Mart ortası ile Mayıs ortası arasında) nasıl etkilendiklerini inceleyen, niteliksel yönteme dayalı, keşifsel bir araştırmanın bulgularına dayanıyor. Bu araştırma ile İstanbul’da çalışanların COVID-19 salgınından ve salgın sürecinde alınan önlemlerden nasıl etkilendiklerine ilişkin...

This article approaches social policy as an integral component of a capitalist society and, by drawing on the notion of the double movement introduced by Karl Polanyi, argues that social policy intervention both limits and contributes to market expansion. While this argument could be generally applied to recent social policy changes in the current...

Social dialogue is a core value and a key objective of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Services also recognizes the value and importance of social dialogue in both policy making and implementation in Turkey. Social dialogue has a proven track record in producing sustainable solutions, including...

Perception on Social Dialogue in Turkey: The Viewpoints of General Public, Employees and Relevant Actors

Bu çalışma ile Türkiye’de “Çalışma Hayatında Sosyal Diyaloğun Geliştirilmesi Projesi” kapsamında 2018 yılında gerçekleştirilmiş olan araştırmanın sonuçları sunulmaktadır. Araştırmanın amacı, kamuoyunun, çalışan kesimin ve çalışma hayatındaki sosyal tarafların sosyal diyalog ve sendikalaşma hakkındaki bilgi ve algılarının ölçülmesi, sosyal diyaloğun...

In Turkey, as in most other societies without mature welfare states, social policy has acquired a novel significance in the context of the late twentieth century economic globalization and the social policy environment has gone through a major transformation especially under the AKP government, which has been in power since 2002. This article prese...

Developmentalism refers to a particular ideology marked by a sense of inevitability about the nature of historical change and to political interventions to implement particular strategies of development. The paradox between the ideology of development and development policy challenges the notion of market-led economic progress that proceeds without...

Introduction During the last few decades, philanthropy has become an important and widely discussed social phenomenon throughout the world. The term philanthropy refers to a wide range of activities undertaken by many different types of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as well as individuals. This chapter focuses on ‘voluntary giving’, which h...

New Capitalism in Turkey explores the changing relationship between politics, religion and business through an analysis of the contemporary Turkish business environment.

This article investigates the twin cultural (conservatism) and economic (neo-liberalism) challenge to gender justice through a discussion of female employment in Turkey, where essentialist views of women's difference continue to be used to legitimize the confinement of women to care work and the character of employment relations in a neo-liberal en...

This article investigates the contemporary Turkish business environment as shaped by the economic, political and cultural transformations of the past 30 years. The changes in the forms and mechanisms of government intervention in the economy, the spatial relocation of industry, the rise of "Anatolian capital," and the cleavages within the business...

This article discusses how changes in the welfare regime are shaped by the inherited institutional setting as well as by politics with reference to the particular case of Turkey, where the former social security system combined Bismarckian conservatism with informality and clientelism. Both the reassertion of traditional forms of solidarity and the...

Since the 1970s, a series of demand and supply related changes have led to significant labour market transformations which have brought about a sustained increase in female employment throughout the world. While similar transformations have also been underway in Turkey, the country appears to be one of the rare exceptions to worldwide trends. Durin...

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This article questions the societal context of labor union strategy for the case of Turkey, where the legacy of the military junta of 1980—1983 is still vivid. The results by and large indicate a clear rupture between unionized and nonunionized workers, a fact that highlights the significance of innovative union strategies directed at expanding mem...

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 socia...

Social policy constitutes an area that clearly reflects the nature of state-society relations and the content of citizenship in a given country. The present article develops this idea by situating the analysis of the Turkish modernization experience in a historical overview of perspectives on poverty and social policy in the republican period.

YOKSULLUK VE VATANDAŞLIK : CUMHURIYET TÜRKIYE ‘SINDEKI SOSYAL POLITIKA ORTAMINA GENEL BIR BAKIŞ - Volume 39 Issue 1 - Ayse Bugra

The social–policy environment reflects the nature of state society relations and the content of citizenship in any given country. The present article situates analysis of the Turkish modernization experience in a historical overview of perspectives on poverty and social policy during the republican period. In surprising contrast to the emphasis pla...

According to Polanyi, a self-regulating market system constitutes an order where the economy is “controlled, regulated and directed by markets alone; order in the production and distribution of goods is entrusted to this self-regulating mechanism.”1 It was such an order, which Polanyi described as “a stark utopia which could not exist for any exten...

The assumption that the expansion of self-regulating markets is the only possible path to the prosperity and flourishing of the human race, and is indispensable for its moral and material well-being, deserves a careful analytical reappraisal if it is to be impugned and refuted. This is what Polanyi did in The Great Transformation. He studied the in...

This article discusses the current transformation of Turkey’s welfare regime in the context of contemporary developments in social policy processes, particularly in Europe. It is argued that the transformation, under constraints of gobalization and neo-liberalism, involves a change from an inegalitarian corporatism where both the rural population a...

This article explores Karl Polanyi’s analysis of the institutional separation of politic and the economy in the context of the 19th century market economy. The contribution his analysis could make to the quest for viable alternatives to the contemporary neo-liberal international order depends on how we construe two key concepts in his work, “disemb...

The South Atlantic Quarterly 102.2/3 (2003) 453-470 In the 1980s, Turkey, like many other countries similarly situated in the world economy, had changed its economic strategy from a protectionist model characterized by heavy state intervention to a more outward-looking and market-oriented one. This change is often interpreted in terms of a basic di...

During the last two decades, many researchers have approached social change in Western developed countries by concentrating on processes of consumption. This observation pertains to different currents of analysis such as the historical studies of the advent of the consumer society in the eighteenth century,1 Regulation School type of analyses inves...

Studies on the contemporary salience of religion in general and Islam in particular often emphasize the power of religion to unify aspirations and behaviour across social classes. This emphasis sometimes leads to the neglect of the role of different life experiences that reflect class positions in determining the nature of social projects designed...

From its early origins to the present, the development of mainstream economic theory has taken a direction which has excluded the analysis of human needs as a basis for social policy. The problems associated with this orientation are increasingly recognized both by economists and non-economists. As Sen (1985) points out, it is indeed strange for a...

This article presents a comparative analysis of the social role of two voluntary associations of Turkish businessmen: TUSIAD (The Association of Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen) and MUSIAD (The Association of Independent Industrialists and Businessmen). These associations are approached both as mechanisms of interest representation and as ag...

This paper discusses the role played by the extensive, nation-wide network of sales agents organized by the leading Turkish manufacturer of consumer durables, Arçelik, in the formation of mass consumption markets in the post-Second World War era. The case study attempts to draw attention to a relatively less explored dimension of the industrializat...

This paper presents an examination of the political, social and economic coordinates of informal housing in Turkey within an analytical framework in which the complex interaction between the organizing principles of reciprocity, redistribution and exchange is taken into account. The discussion is centered on two ideas: (1) both redistribution and r...

Includes abstract in English and French. Thesis (Ph. D.)--McGill University, 1980. Includes bibliography.