Rethinking the State’s Institutional Entrepreneurship in Different Policies: A Typology for the Turkish Context

Abstract

The validity of the concept of the state and the institutional entrepreneurial role of the state, which the new institutional theory portrays in the liberal system as a neutral, coherent, uniform, and institutional actor outside of the institutional fields, is open to discussion in different national contexts and countries where different state systems are dominant. When the studies conducted in the context of Turkey are examined, it would be observed that the state acts with different motivations in different institutional fields, along with its own unique politics. In this study, we that, unlike the institutional entrepreneurship of the state conceptualized in the liberal system, the way the state in Turkey acts can be explained by two dimensions defined in terms of controlling society and prioritizing the redistribution of resources (politically). The discussion set out aims to develop an explanatory framework for the role of the state as an institutional entrepreneur and the institutional work it performs.

Keywords

• new institutional theory
• turkey
• institutional entrepreneurship
• state
• political differences