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    Continuity despite change: the politics of labor regulation in Latin America.
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2017) N/A; Dorlach, Tim Daniel; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
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    Unexpected outcomes: how emerging economies survived the global financial crisis
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2016) N/A; Dorlach, Tim Daniel; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
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    Retrenchment of social policy by other means: a comparison of agricultural and housing policy in Turkey
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019) Dorlach, Tim Daniel; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
    In many low- and middle-income countries, conventional welfare state institutions provide social protection only for the formally employed. In contrast, the rural and urban poor are often protected by "social policy by other means". Based on a comparative analysis of two major unconventional welfare programs in Turkey, agricultural state support and access to squatter housing, this article explains retrenchment of social policy by other means. Agricultural retrenchment was the result of coercive policy transfer from international organizations in a post-crisis context, while the retrenchment of squatter housing was driven by domestic political entrepreneurs responding to decreases in the availability of urban land and the number of informal squatters. In both cases, retrenchment became politically sustainable due to functional replacement with more conventional welfare programs. This analysis challenges the narrow focus of mainstream welfare state research, provides an explanation of retrenchment of social policy by other means, and enhances our understanding of Turkey's uneven welfare state development.
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    The political economy of economic and social policy in contemporary Turkey: An introduction to the special issue
    (Taylof & Francis, 2018) Savaşkan, Osman; N/A; Dorlach, Tim Daniel; PhD Student; Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering; N/A
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    The AKP between populism and neoliberalism: lessons from pharmaceutical policy
    (Cambridge Univ Press, 2016) Dorlach, Tim Daniel; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
    In September 2009, Turkey experienced a major reform of its pharmaceutical expenditure and price policy. By introducing a global budget, Turkey saved some 20 billion TL in public pharmaceutical expenditure in the 2010-2012 period. The lion's share of this was achieved by introducing stricter price controls that reduced the profit margins of pharmaceutical producers and distributors (the populist policy solution), rather than by privatizing the cost of medicines through, for example, raising out-of-pocket payments (the neoliberal policy solution). This is a puzzle, given the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) government's usual preference for lenient and business-friendly regulation. This article explains the policy reform with reference to (i) the pronounced electoral interests of the AKP's political leadership in not substantially reducing access to public health services, (ii) the absence of powerful business interests in high medicine prices, and (iii) the absence of a developmentalist commitment to an industrial policy strategy for the pharmaceutical sector. This case study holds important lessons for scholars of Turkish politics. It suggests that externally the AKP's economic and social policies are driven by the interests of its two major constituencies (namely, lower-class voters and "Anatolian capital"), while internally they are shaped by two camps of policy makers (namely, neoliberal-minded technocrats and election-focused party leaders).