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Argentina and Turkey are two countries with different historical, cultural and institutional attributes. They are however both examples of new democratic regimes that emerged in the mid-1980s amid economic crisis . They are also two newly emerging markets with middle-income status, which switched to free market economics in the 1980s with accelerating privatization programs in the 1990s. Both of the governments applying these privatization plans have been populist in nature but technocratic and neoliberal in credentials. The initiators of economic reform programs, Ozal and Menem, both used effective coalition-making strategies with strongly clientelistic tones giving rise to rampant corruption. Privatizations, in both cases, were used as effective tools to bring about these outcomes while simultaneously shaping them as they emerged. The cases of Argentina and Turkey pose an interesting puzzle in terms of convergent effects of privatizations on democratization and its corollaries. This study argues that comparable patterns can be observed in the concentration of power, in the executive regardless of the parliamentary versus presidentialist regime divide, in the reaction patterns of labor unions and their development inthe neoliberal era, ispread of patronage links and corruption, and finally, in the fluctation of economic development in the two countries. These and other similar developments are then related to the privatization policies and their implementation. Further research should look at more detail in the direct relationship between privatizations, their implementation and consequences on workers and labor unions, party structures and civil society to determine if similar patterns exist as well in these features of democratization and examine why. |
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| Kaleagasi-Blind, Peri. "PRIVATIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION: A Comparative Perspective on Argentina and Turkey of the 1980s" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61412_index.html> |
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| Kaleagasi-Blind, P. , 2004-09-02 "PRIVATIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION: A Comparative Perspective on Argentina and Turkey of the 1980s" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61412_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Argentina and Turkey are two countries with different historical, cultural and institutional attributes. They are however both examples of new democratic regimes that emerged in the mid-1980s amid economic crisis . They are also two newly emerging markets with middle-income status, which switched to free market economics in the 1980s with accelerating privatization programs in the 1990s. Both of the governments applying these privatization plans have been populist in nature but technocratic and neoliberal in credentials. The initiators of economic reform programs, Ozal and Menem, both used effective coalition-making strategies with strongly clientelistic tones giving rise to rampant corruption. Privatizations, in both cases, were used as effective tools to bring about these outcomes while simultaneously shaping them as they emerged. The cases of Argentina and Turkey pose an interesting puzzle in terms of convergent effects of privatizations on democratization and its corollaries. This study argues that comparable patterns can be observed in the concentration of power, in the executive regardless of the parliamentary versus presidentialist regime divide, in the reaction patterns of labor unions and their development inthe neoliberal era, ispread of patronage links and corruption, and finally, in the fluctation of economic development in the two countries. These and other similar developments are then related to the privatization policies and their implementation. Further research should look at more detail in the direct relationship between privatizations, their implementation and consequences on workers and labor unions, party structures and civil society to determine if similar patterns exist as well in these features of democratization and examine why. |
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| PRIVATIZATIONS DEMOCRATIZATION AND LABOR: A Comparative Perspective on Argentina and Turkey of the 1980s PERI KALEAGASI-BLIND GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY "Prepared for delivery at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association September 2- September 5 2004. Copyright by the American Political Science Association." THIS IS A DRAFT. PLEASE DO NOT CITE. 1 PRIVATIZATIONS DEMOCRATIZATION AND LABOR: A Comparative Perspective on Argentina and Turkey of the 1980s I/ Privatizations and Democratization Political economists have extensively written about privatizations since |
| level and the party system structure and party discipline the cases of Argentina and Turkey pose an interesting puzzle in terms of convergent effects of privatizations on democratization and its corollaries. This study has established that comparable patterns in executive concentration of power reaction patterns of labor unions increasing patronage and corruption links and the fluctation of economic development in the two countries Further research should look at more detail in the direct relationship between privatizations their implementation and |
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