THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION MENTALITY OF THE NEW RIGHT IN TURKEY: TURGUT ÖZAL AND THE MOTHERLAND PARTY (ANAP)
TÜRKİYE’DE YENİ SAĞ’IN KAMU YÖNETİMİ ANLAYIŞI: TURGUT ÖZAL ve ANAP

Author : Bülent ŞENER -- Çağrı D. ÇOLAK
Number of pages : 393-417

Abstract

The Great Depression of 1929 and the developments that followed transformed economic life in Western countries by effecting a change from classical liberalism to “welfare state” (social state). This change provided for government involvement in the economy, which shaped social, political and economic life in Western countries for many years to come. With the economic crisis of the 1970s, there was a return to classical liberalism under the guise of neo-liberalism. The economic liberalism of that era was accompanied by socially conservative values, which were together called the “new right,” or liberal-conservatism. There was a transition from an understanding of state as an interventionist, centralist, rigidly hierarchical, and strictly ordered entity to a decentralized, less hierarchical, and minimal state with a flexible organizational structure. The “new right” ideology, which combined the “free market” and “limited government” principles of liberalism with social conservatism, beca

Keywords

Neo-liberalism, Neo- conservatism, Turgut Özal, Motherland Party, Public administration

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