State and Market in the Analysis of Anatolian Tigers: a Critical Survey
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STATE AND MARKET IN THE ANALYSIS OF ANATOLIAN TIGERS: A CRITICAL SURVEY A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BY MERVE NESLİHAN GÜRBÜZEL IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FEBRUARY 2013 Approval of the Graduate School of Social Sciences ______________________ Prof.Dr. Meliha Altunışık Director I certify that this thesis satisfies all the requirements as a thesis for the degree of Master of Science. ______________________ Prof.Dr. Raşit Kaya Head of Department This is to certify that we have read this thesis and that in our opinion it is fully adequate, in scope and quality, as a thesis for the degree of Master of Science. ______________________ Assist.Prof. Dr. Galip L. Yalman Supervisor Examining Committee Members Assist.Prof. Dr. Galip L. Yalman (METU, ADM) ___________________ Assist.Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ (METU, ADM) ___________________ Assist. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Şen (METU, SOC) ___________________ I hereby declare that all information in this document has been obtained and presented in accordance with academic rules and ethical conduct. I also declare that, as required by these rules and conduct, I have fully cited and referenced all material and results that are not original to this work. Name, Last name: Merve Neslihan Gürbüzel Signature : iii ABSTRACT STATE AND MARKET IN THE ANALYSIS OF ANATOLIAN TIGERS: A CRITICAL SURVEY Gürbüzel, Merve Neslihan M.Sc., Department of Political Science and Public Administration Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Galip L. Yalman February 2013, 110 pages This thesis attempts to present a critical survey on studies on Anatolian capital focusing on their state and market conceptualizations. The studies have been grouped into three due to their theoretical frameworks as the studies employing New Regionalist, state tradition and state rescaling approaches. The thesis proposes New Regionalist and state tradition approaches to Anatolian capital are both ahistorical and aspatial approaches; these approaches develop in parallel with political developments and propose a glossed over portrait of Anatolian Tigers. Anatolian Tigers are generally presented as representatives of free market as they develop with little or no support of the state unlike the former generation of businessmen. Hence they stand for the legitimization of neo-liberal policies. The concepts of entrepreneurship, cooperation and competition are described as the nature and the merits of Anatolian small and medium scaled enterprises which make them compatible with the free market conditions. The last group of literature, state rescaling, is presented as the alternative to the first two with its historical and spatial analysis. The thesis will propose the relational analyses within the state rescaling framework is helpful to reveal uneven development which is veiled by ahistorical and aspatial approaches by including relations of state, capital and labour instead of defining the experience of Anatolian capital as a challenge to the state. Keywords: Anatolian capital, Anatolian tigers, New Regionalism, State tradition, State rescaling. iv ÖZ ANADOLU KAPLANLARI YAZININDA DEVLET VE PİYASA: ELEŞTİREL BİR BAKIŞ Gürbüzel, Merve Neslihan Yüksek Lisans, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü Tez Danışmanı: Doç.Dr. Galip L. Yalman Şubat 2013, 110 sayfa Bu tez, Anadolu sermayesi yazınının, devlet ve piyasa kavramsallaştırmaları ekseninde eleştirel bir analizini sunmayı amaçlar. Yazın, kavramsal çerçevelerine göre, Yeni Bölgeselcilik, devlet geleneği ve devletin yeniden ölçeklenmesi yaklaşımlarını benimseyen üç gruba ayrılarak incelenmektedir. Tez, Yeni Bölgeselcilik ve devlet geleneği yaklaşımlarını benimseyen çalışmaların tarihsel ve mekansal olmayan bir temelde inşa edildiklerini iddia eder. Bu iki grup yazın, siyasi gelişmelerle paralel olarak fazlaca süslenmis bir Anadolu Kaplanları portresi sunmaktadır. Anadolu Kaplanları, kendilerinden önceki sermayedarların aksine, çok az veya hiç devlet desteğiyle geliştikleri için serbest piyasanın temsilcileri olarak sunulur. Bu da, aslında, neo-liberal politikaları meşrulaştırmaya yönelik bir çaba olarak görülebilinir. Anadolu sermayesinin serbest piyasa ekonomisiyle olan uyumu, onların doğaları veya erdemleri olarak tanımlanan girişimcilik, rekabet ve işbirligi kavramlarına dayandırılır. Üçüncü grup yazın, devletin yeniden ölçeklenmesi, tarihsel ve mekansal analizi ile, ilk iki gruba bir alternatif olarak sunulur. Tez, devletin yeniden ölçeklenmesi yaklaşımının aslında Anadolu sermayesinin gelişimi deneyiminin merkezinde olan ve Yeni Bölgeselcilik ve devlet geleneği yaklaşımlarında perdelenen eşitsiz gelismeyi ve devlet, sermaye, emek ilişkilerini anlamaya olanak verdiğini öne sürer. Anahtar Kelimeler: Anadolu sermayesi, Anadolu kaplanları, Yeni Bölgeselcilik, Devlet geleneği, Devletin yeniden ölçeklenmesi. v To my sister, Aslıhan vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I should express my gratitude to my supervisor, Assist. Prof. Dr. Galip Yalman; I am grateful for his lectures and guidance with his kind and welcoming attitude. I would like to express my sincere thanks to Asssist. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kemal Bayırbağ and Assist. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Şen for their valuable critics, suggestions and most of all, their encouraging comments. I am most thankful to my family. My mother and my father have always encouraged me and supported my efforts during my education life, I believe they are my greatest fortune. Without their support this study would be hardly realized. I am deeply indebted to my sister, Aslıhan. She has been a sister, a friend and an academic advisor for me. I am grateful for both her morale and intellectual support; she has always been an inspiration to me. I would like to thank my younger sister, Münire, for always being a source of joy for me. I offer special thanks to Songül Bozkurt, who motivated me to pursue my further academic work. I would like to thank to Gülnur Güler, for her sincere friendship that put me at ease throughout the process of writing. Last but not least, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Görkem Demirok who shared my pain and joy in writing process. I am deeply grateful for his never-ending patience, belief in me and his friendship throughout all these years. vii TABLE OF CONTENTS PLAGIARISM……………………………………………… ….………………...…iii ABSTRACT………………………………………………………….……………....iv ÖZ…………………………………………………….…………………………...….v DEDICATION……………………………………………………………………….vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ……………...…………….…………………………...vii TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………….…………………...………..…viii CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION........................................................................................1 2. STATE TRADITION LITERATURE AND ‘ANATOLIAN TIGERS’……………………………………………………………...…..13 2.1. The Conceptual Framework of Statist-Institutionalism………………14 2.2. The State Tradition Based Literature on Anatolian Capital..................17 2.2.1. The Transition in the 1980s and The State and Busines.................17 2.2.1.1.‘State-Nation’ and Its Volunteer Businessmen in Chains: A pre- 1980s Tableau............................................................................18 2.2.1.2. Anatolian Tigers: Indebted to State or Not?.............................23 2.2.1.3. Anatolian Tigers as Islamic Capital…………………………..27 2.2.2. The ‘Political Sphere’ and ‘Anatolian Tigers’................................32 3. ANATOLIAN CITIES AS NEW INDUSTRIAL SPACES: NEW REGIONALIST LITERATURE ON ANATOLIAN CAPITAL...............35 3.1. New Regionalism: A General Outview…............................................35 3.1.1.The Crisis of Fordism, Transition to Post-Fordism and Flexible Production.......................................................................................36 3.1.2. New Regionalism............................................................................42 3.1.3. New Regionalism as A ‘Third Way’ to State and Market Dichotomy…………………………………………….……….....45 3.1.4. New Industrial Spaces.....................................................................49 viii 3.2. New Regionalism and ‘Anatolian Tigers’: Spatial Transformation in the 1980s................................................................................................52 3.2.1.Anatolian Cities as New Industrial Spaces: Competition and Cooperation as Bearers of Innovation............................................54 3.2.2. The State and ‘New Industrial Spaces’ of Turkey..........................60 4. QUEST FOR A RELATIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF ‘ANATOLIAN TIGERS’...........................................................................64 4.1. State Rescaling and Local Scale in Neo-liberal Context: An Overview of the Current Literature......................................................................66 4.1.1. Spatialized Approach to State and Urban Entrepreneurialism...…69 4.1.2. Strategic Relational Approach and The State.................................71 4.2. State Rescaling in Turkey and ‘Anatolian Tigers’...............................76 4.2.1. The Dialectic of Cooperation and Competition..............................80 4.2.3 Concluding Remarks.......................................................................82 5. CONCLUSION...........................................................................................86 REFERENCES...........................................................................................................94 APPENDIX………………………………………………………………………. 110