Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
World Review of Political Economy, cilt.9, sa.1, ss.80-96, 2018 (ESCI)
© 2018 Pluto Journals. All rights reserved.This study intends to examine the transformation of the social security system in neoliberal era in Turkey after 1980. Most of the studies argue that neoliberal transformation of economy has been led by international institutions and that social security has been commoditized in the market during the period of neoliberal restructuring. Pointing out that commoditization discourse cannot satisfactorily explain the fact, this article tries to show that the transformation of social security has some clientelistic and populist features designed to contribute to neoliberal accumulation regime in many ways. It argues that social security policy aimed at reproducing labour power, manufacturing consent of poor masses and helping privatization process of state-owned enterprises.