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Does policy style shift when the political regime changes? Insights from Turkey

Title	Does policy style shift when the political regime changes? Insights from Turkey
Author	Özveren, Ebru Ertugal
Publication Date:	2022-03-15
Publication Place	- Taylor & Francis
Subject	Administrative styles, Executive styles, Governance, Policy styles, Turkey
Type	Periodical
Language	English
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID	1356-9775
Record ID	0010636e-f572-47d0-8d9f-3a38d1f9813a
Library Location	International Relations
Date	2022-03-15
Sample Text	This article applies the concept of 'policy styles' to Turkey in order to contribute to the scholarly debate on the relationship between policy styles and political regime. By uncovering the distinctive features of Turkey's policy processes through a within-case comparative approach, I advance two arguments. First, while policy styles are commonly viewed in literature as determined by administrative traditions, political institutions and policy paradigms, Turkey's policy style has been more responsive to electoral politics, and, until recently, problem situation, in particular crises. Second, policy style is both a cause and a consequence of regime change. Turkey's policy style has displayed both continuities as well as differences as it descended into authoritarianism. The characteristics of the policy style gradually undermine institutions of democracy. As democratic backsliding proceeds, government redesigns the institutional context of policy-making, reinforcing and consolidating the anti-democratic features of the policy style.
DOI	10.1080/13569775.2021.1976941
Cilt	28

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Does policy style shift when the political regime changes? Insights from Turkey

Author Özveren, Ebru Ertugal

Publication Date 2022-03-15

Publication Place - Taylor & Francis

Subject Administrative styles, Executive styles, Governance, Policy styles, Turkey

Type Periodical

Language English

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Özyeğin University

Library Asset ID 1356-9775

Record ID 0010636e-f572-47d0-8d9f-3a38d1f9813a

Library Location International Relations

Date 2022-03-15

Sample Text This article applies the concept of 'policy styles' to Turkey in order to contribute to the scholarly debate on the relationship between policy styles and political regime. By uncovering the distinctive features of Turkey's policy processes through a within-case comparative approach, I advance two arguments. First, while policy styles are commonly viewed in literature as determined by administrative traditions, political institutions and policy paradigms, Turkey's policy style has been more responsive to electoral politics, and, until recently, problem situation, in particular crises. Second, policy style is both a cause and a consequence of regime change. Turkey's policy style has displayed both continuities as well as differences as it descended into authoritarianism. The characteristics of the policy style gradually undermine institutions of democracy. As democratic backsliding proceeds, government redesigns the institutional context of policy-making, reinforcing and consolidating the anti-democratic features of the policy style.

DOI 10.1080/13569775.2021.1976941

Cilt 28