CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Uluk, Turkan |
|---|---|
| Title | Evaluating the Impact of International Financial Institutions on State Bureaucratic Quality in Turkey |
| Summary | The intense involvement of two prominent international financial institutions, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, in the implementation of neoliberal policies, particularly after the 1980s, has a negative impact on bureaucratic quality in Turkey via conditionality practices offering administrative and structural regulations. According to Immanuel Wallerstein, a well-known sociologist, the world economy is basically divided into two geographic and cultural regions: the capitalist core, which has military and economic power and advanced technology; and the periphery, which is economically less advanced, focuses on labor-intensive production, and is heavily dependent on raw material trade. The dynamic between these two groups is mainly established upon the trade relations. Yet, as the neoliberal transformation has been accelerating since 1980s, weakening the bureaucratic quality, the international financial institutions take on the role of maintaining the core-periphery dynamics through a set of regulations and amendments imposed on periphery countries as conditions for the programs they offer. Turkey, as one of the peripheral countries, experiences its neoliberal transformation under the leadership of IMF and the World Bank starting from 1980s. Besides the economic catastrophes and crises as a result of neoliberal policy implementations under the supervision of these institutions, weakened bureaucratic quality is another very important consequence. An OLS estimation conducted in the thesis shows how the conditions applied negatively affects the bureaucratic quality in Turkey for the years between 1980 and 2008. |
| Supervisor | Piroska, Dora; Ratfai, Attila. |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/uluk_turkan.pdf |
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