The enduring debate on institutional pillars of contemporary political economies has gathered a noticeable momentum in terms of the change, path-dependence, and varieties of capitalism. By taking a methodological standpoint claiming that a "the current structure and the future of contemporary societies can only be understood by using an evolutionary and macro institutional approach that would explain the trajectories of social structures from a systemic perspectivea (TM), this book first aims at formulating a novel analytical framework thus, Institutional System Analysis in Political Economy. This framework comprises, inter alia, a model of path-dependent changes, and then attempts to apply it to the case of the Ottoman-Turkish social system. In sum, the book develops an a "interaction-theoretic and evolutionarily-structured approacha (TM) with an aim to better capture the path-dependence and change of political, economic, and cultural action in terms of their intersectional dynamics.
Contents: Introduction. Part I Institutions, Social System and Political Economy: Institutional interactions in an evolutionary system perspective; A systemic and cross-paradigmatic analysis of Islamic, neoliberal and social democratic political economies. Part II Formation and Re-formation of Path-Dependencies among Islam, Secularism and Etatist Liberalism: Primordial path-dependencies: the Ottoman Islamic institutionalism; Burgeoning secular capitalism between changing continuities versus continuing path-dependencies; The embedding of Orthodox Kemalism and etatist liberalism in Analotia between continuing changes and path-dependent discontinuities; The institutional environment and the major actors in the Turkish political economy during the period 1960-2013. Part III Systemic Versus Reconciliative Changes Between Major Paradigms in Modern Turkey, 1960-2013: The floating evolution of Turkish social democracy and Kemalism between Orthodoxy and third way; The Just Order: re-accumulation of discontinuing path-dependencies versus the persistence of path-dependent discontinuities; Conservative democracy as the Second Great Divide [?] in Anatolia at the crossroads of continuing changes and changing discontinuities. Part IV The Future Prospects: Is there a next way for Turkish social democracy?; The political and economic future of the Ottoman-Turkish Islam. Conclusion; References; Index.