Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Political Survival,Mass Politics, and Sovereign Default
- 3 Regime-Contingent Biases and Sovereign Default, 1960–2009
- 4 Default Pressures in Closed versus Electoral Autocracy: Zambia and Malaysia
- 5 Default Pressures in Consolidated versus Contentious Democracy: Costa Rica and Jamaica
- 6 Urban–Rural Pressures across Regime Types: The Case of Turkey
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Urban–Rural Pressures across Regime Types: The Case of Turkey
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Political Survival,Mass Politics, and Sovereign Default
- 3 Regime-Contingent Biases and Sovereign Default, 1960–2009
- 4 Default Pressures in Closed versus Electoral Autocracy: Zambia and Malaysia
- 5 Default Pressures in Consolidated versus Contentious Democracy: Costa Rica and Jamaica
- 6 Urban–Rural Pressures across Regime Types: The Case of Turkey
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
While earlier chapters have compared urban or rural biases across different countries, in this chapter I make use of a rare confluence of historical conditions in the Turkish case, in which an identical ruler---Turgut Ozal---presided over agricultural price policies under autocratic and democratic institutions.While serving as minister of finance under military rule, Ozal was a fierce critic of costly agricultural support programs that had developed under prior electoral competition between Turkish parties, and successfully removed many of these farm support programs. However, when competing for office following restoration of multiparty elections, Ozal discovered the necessity of winning rural support for electoral success, and subsequently reinstated costly farm subsidies.The Turkish case helps validate the broader expectations of urban or rural bias, within the same country, across differing institions of executive survival, and also demonstrates that the inability of elected leaders to remove costly subsidies was a key factor driving Turkey to default on its sovereign debt.
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- Democracy, Dictatorship, and DefaultUrban-Rural Bias and Economic Crises across Regimes, pp. 157 - 170Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020