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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Export-Led Growth and the Center-Right Coalition in Turkey
Contributor:
Waterbury, John
imprint:
City University of New York, 1992
Published in:Comparative Politics
Language:
English
ISSN:
0010-4159
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>Turkey's shift toward export-led growth since 1983 has presented particular political challenges. It has come in conjunction with diminished public resources necessitating the remaking of a broad coalition that had benefited from import-substituting industrialization. The new coalition is much narrower and lies on the center-right of the political spectrum. It is sustained by targeted, compensatory payments generated by real growth in the economy. The center-right coalition can win control of the electoral system through national pluralities. The dynamics of coalition formation and electoral control in Turkey may hold lessons for several other developing countries. Market-oriented reforms will be accompanied by increased discretionary powers in the executive and the use of those powers to direct compensatory flows to keep some strategic groups in the coalition while neutralizing others. Economic growth, compensatory payments that run counter to economic efficiency, and the ability to control at least a third of the electorate are the essential ingredients.</p>