{"title":"Theorizing the Developmental State beyond Nation-State Histories and Trajectories: The Non-Sovereign Model and the Case of Finland","authors":"Juho Korhonen","doi":"10.26650/SJ.2020.40.2.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/SJ.2020.40.2.0053","url":null,"abstract":"Developmental state theorization has largely centered on sovereign nation-states and the post-World War II era even while, first, historical work has shown important continuities across even the 1917-1919 divide and, second, recently the importance of a capabilities approach that extends beyond the confines of strictly sovereign state agency has been stressed. Focusing on these two considerations, this article brings historical variance to the developmental state literature by introducing the non-sovereign model that is based on the Finnish national historical trajectory. It argues that the Finnish developmental state project began in the pre-independence era in the Russian Empire and continued along the same core strategy through the interwar years and Finlandization under the Soviet Union all the way to membership in the European Union.","PeriodicalId":117002,"journal":{"name":"İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi","volume":"53 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127571841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Developmental Government and Economic Development in Sri Lanka 2005–2019: Lessons from East Asian Developmentalism","authors":"Yan He","doi":"10.26650/SJ.2020.40.2.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/SJ.2020.40.2.0051","url":null,"abstract":"The political and economic development of Sri Lanka from 2005 to 2019 was occurred amidst much controversy. This article focuses on the relationship between economic growth and regime change in Sri Lanka during those fifteen years and the challenges these events pose to most theories of democratic development. Drawing on an ideal type of East Asian developmentalism to construct an explanatory framework for a comparative study of political and economic policies of the developmental government in Sri Lanka through case analysis and process tracing over three periods of governance, this article argues that efficient strongman leadership, an imbalanced bureaucracy, and simplified industrial policy are important explanatory variables for national development in Sri Lanka. An examination of these variables can clarify the characteristic strengths and weaknesses of developmental governments in Sri Lanka and lead to new explanations of related issues. The applicability of this framework remains to be tested, and the return of the Rajapaksa family to power may give an opportunity for this.","PeriodicalId":117002,"journal":{"name":"İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115588802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development Finance: A Financing Platform Between the Government and the Market","authors":"L. WeiPing, L. Daren","doi":"10.26650/SJ.2020.40.2.0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/SJ.2020.40.2.0060","url":null,"abstract":"The core of development finance with Chinese characteristics is that it is a “bridge” between the government and the market. Development finance addresses the phenomenon of “market failure” due to information asymmetry and alleviates the problem of “government failure” due to the inefficiency of fiscal subsidies and other funds through government intervention in financial markets. Meanwhile, it integrates the advantages of commercial finance and traditional policy-based finance. It is a form of finance that was introduced in response to institutional backwardness and market failure and in order to safeguard national financial security and enhance economic competitiveness. The core mechanism of development finance is to build a government credit system through cooperation between policy banks and governments and by relying on government-organized credit enhancement, and to form a financing mechanism consisting of “project selection by the government, development finance incubation, and the realization of market outlets”. Development finance combines project construction with market building, makes initiative on the part of the government the focus of the market-oriented operation of development banks, utilizes national credit, and regulates market failure and promotes balanced economic development through reasonable arrangements for credit volumes and structures.","PeriodicalId":117002,"journal":{"name":"İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114762701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Evolution of China’s High-tech Zones and the Guiding Philosophy of the Developmental State","authors":"Zuoxiang Zhao","doi":"10.26650/SJ.2020.40.2.0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/SJ.2020.40.2.0052","url":null,"abstract":"The Chinese economy is undergoing a transition from a development stage that relies on labor and resource advantages to a new development stage driven by technology and innovation. As a developmental state, the Chinese government is constantly changing its industrial policy concepts and tools while promoting the development of high-tech industries. The transformation of the Chinese government’s development thinking has been well reflected in the development of high-tech zones at different stages. The heterogeneity of industrial policies in different periods has effectively promoted the evolution of high-tech zones from traditional industrial parks that provide infrastructure and industrial space to functional technology parks with high-tech enterprises, technology incubators and technology innovation platforms.","PeriodicalId":117002,"journal":{"name":"İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125761585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Suna, Hande Tanberkan, Emine Eroğlu, Mahmut Özet, Bekir S. Gür
{"title":"Horizontal Skills Mismatch in Vocational Education in Turkey: The Reasons for Out-of-Field Employment","authors":"H. Suna, Hande Tanberkan, Emine Eroğlu, Mahmut Özet, Bekir S. Gür","doi":"10.26650/SJ.2020.40.2.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/SJ.2020.40.2.0101","url":null,"abstract":"As a type of skills mismatch, horizontal skills mismatch (HM) is a particularly important problem for vocational education and training (VET) in Turkey because the majority of VET graduates work in a different field than the one in which they were educated. This study aims to determine the reasons why some VET graduates in Turkey work in fields other than their original field of study. For this purpose, we have employed a sequential mixed-model research design, first conducting face-to-face interviews with 20 VET graduates and then applying a questionnaire to VET graduates that elicited 4,863 responses. The study uses descriptive analysis for the qualitative data from the interviews and an open-ended item from the questionnaire. The qualitative results show the most common reasons for VET graduates’ employment out of their field of study to include being unable to find a job in their field of study, low wages, lack of necessary vocational skills, lack of experience, and working conditions. Quantitative results show VET graduates to want to be employed in their field of study and to make significant efforts in finding jobs that match their field. We have concluded HM to be a common problem and all the factors influencing VET graduates’ out-of-field employment to be related to a weak relationship between VET and the Turkish labor market.","PeriodicalId":117002,"journal":{"name":"İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127842725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Devlet ve Küresel Piyasa Arasında: Karadeniz Bölgesi’nde Küçük Ölçekli Fındık Üretimi","authors":"","doi":"10.26650/sj.2020.40.1.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/sj.2020.40.1.0047","url":null,"abstract":"Turkey is the world’s largest hazelnut producer and exporter, yet hazelnut farmers have been growing hazelnuts in increasingly difficult conditions even for the years when production levels and hazelnut prices are high. In this paper, we take up the contradictions in hazelnut cultivation in Turkey and seek to show that, despite the commonsense opinion that the problem stems from small-scale cultivation, the more important problem is the unequal power relations that exist in the hazelnut market. We make the following arguments in the paper based on some of the findings from the field study we carried out in the Western and Eastern Black Sea regions in 2017. Issues exist regarding productivity and profitability in hazelnut cultivation characterized by small holdings. Hazelnut farmers are often unable to meet the expenditures and investments required for raising productivity. These problems arise more from the farmers’ demographic profiles and debt levels and the unequal power relations in the hazelnut market with respect to small-scale production. Therefore, resolving the problems in hazelnut cultivation might require making changes that favor small farmers’ power relations in the hazelnut market rather than enlarging holdings.","PeriodicalId":117002,"journal":{"name":"İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122866852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assortative Mating and Women’s Working-Hours Decisions in Turkey","authors":"M. A. Mercan","doi":"10.26650/sj.2019.39.2.0103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/sj.2019.39.2.0103","url":null,"abstract":"Wives’ decisions regarding their working hours and their assortative mating levels with respect to income affect the main determinants of family-income inequality in any given country. In this paper, I estimate the degree of sorting between both husbands’ earnings and wives’ working hours and between husbands’ earnings and wives’ earnings in Turkey. For the analyses I have used the Turkish Statistical Institute’s Labor Force Surveys conducted from 2004 to 2017, estimated the assortative mating coefficient for each year separately, and then pooled the data. The results indicate that positive assortative mating in terms of earnings exists for all the analysed years. The results further suggest that a negative relationship exists between a husband’s income and his wife’s working hours in Turkey.","PeriodicalId":117002,"journal":{"name":"İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121816895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Avrupa Refah Rejimleri ve Türkiye’de Öznel İyi Oluş","authors":"Ümmügülsüm Aysan","doi":"10.26650/SJ.2019.39.1.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/SJ.2019.39.1.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Bu calismanin temel amaci Avrupa Yasam Kalitesi Arastirmasi guncel verilerine dayanarak, Avrupa ve Turkiye’deki oznel iyi olus seviyelerinin, refah rejimi tartismalari baglaminda mukayeseli analizini ortaya koymaktir. Oznel iyi olus yasam memnuniyeti ve mutluluk gibi bilissel ve duygusal bilesenlerden olusan cok boyutlu bir kavramdir. Kisilik yapisi, cinsiyet, yas, gelir, medeni durum gibi bireysel ozellikler yaninda ulkenin ekonomik durumu, toplumsal yapi ve politik yapi gibi makro faktorlerden de etkilenir. Dolayisiyla bireylerin ve toplumlarin yasam kalitesine etki eden refah devletinin ve sosyal politikalarin nitelikleri de oznel iyi olus seviyelerine tesir etmektedir. Analiz sonuclari sosyal politika uygulamalarinin kurumsallastigi gelismis refah rejimlerinde oznel iyi olus seviyelerinin az gelismis refah rejimlerine gore daha yuksek oldugunu gostermektedir. Mutluluk ve yasam memnuniyeti Sosyal Demokrat ulkelerde en yuksek iken, Guney Avrupa ve Post sosyalist refah rejimlerinde en dusuk seviyelerdedir.","PeriodicalId":117002,"journal":{"name":"İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126444783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Durkheim’da Toplum-Çevre Etkileşimi: Dışlayıcı Toplumsal Olgulara Karşı Çevreci Potansiyel","authors":"Çağrı Eryılmaz","doi":"10.26650/SJ.2019.39.1.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/SJ.2019.39.1.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Bu calismanin amaci Durkheim’in sosyolojik yaklasimini toplum-cevre etkilesimi cercevesinde incelemektir. Doneminin ilerlemeci endustriyel toplumunun bir uyesi olan Durkheim’in toplumsal olgularin ancak diger toplumsal olgular ile aciklanabilecegi yonundeki yaklasimi, sosyoloji disiplininin kurulus surecinde cevresel etkenleri dislamistir. Durkheim evrim surecindeki toplumu, tarih boyunca degismedigini vurguladigi dogal cevreden ayri bir gerceklik olarak ortaya koymustur. Diger yandan, Durkheim sosyolojiyi ayri bir disiplin olarak kurarken doneminin guclu ve mesru doga bilimlerinin yontemlerini kullanmistir. Ayrica cevrenin topluma etkisini; mekanik dayanismadan organik dayanismaya geciste ekolojik kaynaklarin rolu ornegindeki gibi vurgulamistir. Toplumsal gercekligi aciklayan calismalarinda siklikla nufus, denge, organizma ve kaynak kitligi gibi doga metaforlari kullanmistir. Dahasi, toplumsal isbolumunun tum canli organizmalarda olup dogadan topluma gectigine dikkat cekmistir. En onemlisi ise toplumu doganin karmasik bir parcasi olarak tanimlamasidir. Durkheim cevre sorunlarinin ciddiyetinin ve yayginliginin kabul edildigi; biyoloji ile ekoloji bilimlerinin cok gelistigi gunumuzde yasasaydi, toplum-cevre etkilesimi iceren sosyolojik bir yaklasim gelistirme potansiyeline sahip olabilecekti. Zira vurguladigi dayanisma, kolektif bilinc ve isbolumu kavramlarinin yeniden yorumlanmasinin, kuresel olcekteki cevre sorunlarina karsi uluslararasi bir isbirligi zemini olusturmasi mumkundur.","PeriodicalId":117002,"journal":{"name":"İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125315082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Under the Empire of Spontaneous Solidarity: State and Political Action in the Theoretical Durkheimian Project (1892-1893)","authors":"Graciela Inda","doi":"10.26650/SJ.2019.39.1.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/SJ.2019.39.1.0015","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims at identifying and examining all the principles arisen from the issues of the state and politics in Durkheim’s production during the period 1892-1893, signaled by the publication of his famous thesis on the cohesive role of the division of social labor. According to the in-depth analysis carried out in this article, the most important points of Durheim’s politics are four. Firstly, the conception of the state as an organ that translates an automatic social solidarity because it is an entire entity preexisting any political relationships. Secondly, the distinction of despotism as a regime that implies the complete absorption of individuals by the political apparatus. Thirdly, the problem of the growing enlargement of the state interventions in the individuals’ private life sphere. Finally, the incapacity of any political action to transform the society’s morphology.","PeriodicalId":117002,"journal":{"name":"İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi","volume":"61 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133038635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}