Browsing by Author "Ertugal, E."

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Europeanisation in the ‘Southern Periphery’: comparative research findings on the EU's impact on domestic political economies
(Routledge, 2013) Balkir, C.; Bolukbasi, H. T.; Ertugal, E.
This article presents the comparative findings of six case studies of continuity and change in Southern European political economies which make use of the Europeanisation research programme. It summarises the varied European Union (EU) level inputs, frameworks or agendas in the different policy areas that each case study focuses on. It gauges the magnitude and direction of domestic change at the level of policy and governance in each political economy. In order to show how the case studies unpack the relationship between the EU input and domestic change in public policies, the article explains how the prevalent ideas, dominant interests and structuring institutions co-determine the nature of domestic change in political economies.
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Europeanisation of employment policy in Turkey: tracing domestic change through institutions, ideas and interests
(Routledge, 2013) Bolukbasi, H. T.; Ertugal, E.
This article examines the impact of the European Union (EU) on Turkish political economy through an analysis of employment policy. Through tracing ‘institutions’, ‘ideas’ and ‘interests’ representing this policy area, it analyses the extent to which the accession process, which started with the granting of candidate status at the Helsinki Summit in December 1999, has prompted a transformation in this policy area. It draws on empirical evidence based on semi-structured interviews and other primary sources. The main finding is that domestic change occurs, however limited and variegated across sub-policy areas, through policy learning. Moreover, the policy ideas transplanted from the EU gain importance only in interaction with preferences of the coalition of dominant actors..
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Europeanisation of policy-making in Turkey and its limits
(Bristol University Press, 2018) Bölükbaşı, Tolga H.; Ertugal, E.; Özçürümez, Saime; Bakır, C.; Ertan, G.
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The impact of the EU on Turkey: Toward streamlining Europeanisation as a research programme
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2010) Bolukbasi, H. T.; Ertugal, E.; Ozcurumez, S.
This article provides a reassessment of the literature on the transformative impact of the EU on Turkey through the lens of the Europeanisation research programme. It relies on systematic examination of a sample of the literature based on substantive findings, research design and methods. It suggests that this sample displays limitations characteristic of the Europeanisation research programme and proposes to remedy these limitations by applying the research design and methods used therein for generating empirically based comparative research on Turkey. © 2010 European Consortium for Political Research.
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Napoleonic tradition, majoritarianism, and Turkey’s statist policy style
(Taylor & Francis, 2018) Bölükbaşı, H. Tolga; Ertugal, E.; Howlett, M.; Tosun, J.
Turkey had a relatively stable traditional style of policymaking typical of those in Southern Europe based on Napoleonic administrative traditions. 1980 marks the transition to a period of flux with shifting policy style features representing each decade since then. We identify both the enduring and changing features of these national policy styles over time as well as the main ideational and institutional drivers of continuity and change. We show that the enduring features have been hierarchical, imposing and reactionary, where the government takes the driving seat distributing costs and benefits. Alongside these relatively stable features, the role of bureaucracy changed from one of shaping the policy agenda towards one of implementing an increasingly politicized agenda. The recent styles left increasingly larger room for the involvement of various stakeholders in the policy process, albeit only for consultation purposes. These changing features co-vary with the changing characteristics of the political regime and the shifting nature of the polity in time. They are also increasingly shaped by mechanisms of “governance transfer” in the EU pre-accession process especially in the last two decades.