Strong State and Economic Interest Groups: The Post-1980 Turkish Experience

Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Terms and Abbreviations -- Part One INTRODUCTION -- 1 The State and Interest Groups with Special Reference to Turkey -- Part Two A NEW ERA: THE 1980s -- 2 Political Economy of Turkey in the 1980s Anatomy of Unorthodox Liberalism -- 3 The Post-1980 Legal Framework for Interest Group Associations -- Part Three THE STATE AND ECONOMIC INTEREST GROUPS -- 4 Labour: The Battered Community -- 5 Agriculture: The Forgotten Sector -- 6 Commercial Groups: Love-Hate Relationship with the State -- 7 Exporters: Favoured Dependency -- 8 Macro-Politics of De-Regulation and Micro-Politics of Banks -- 9 Manufacturing Industries: Giants with Hesitant Voices -- 10 Politics and Big Business: Janus-Faced Link to the State -- Part Four CONCLUSION -- 11 Political Sources of Uncertainty in Business Life -- 12 Interest-Group Politics in post-1980 Turkey Lingering Monism -- Major References Cited -- Contributors -- Index