Çevre ve gelişme kapitalizmin ekonomik politiği üzerine bir çalışma: Amerika Birleşik Devleri`ndeki, Birleşik Krallık`taki ve Türkiye`deki 1980 sonrası eşzamanlı dönüşümün farklı sonuçları

ABSTRACTA Study on Political Economy of Peripheral and Advanced Capitalism:A Simultaneous Transformation with Different Results in the post-1980 United States,United Kingdom and TurkeyKalkan, Kerem OzanM.A, Department of Political ScienceSupervisor: Prof. Dr. Ümit CizreJune 2005This thesis focuses on the post-1980 neo-liberal transformation experienced in theUnited States, the United Kingdom and Turkey. These are the countries which started toimplement neo-liberal policies simultaneously under Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher andTurgut Özal administrations. I developed a political economy outlook on these countries insuch a fashion that compares welfare state implementations to neo-liberal policies. Afterhaving analyzed four main macroeconomic indicators which are real GDP growth, inflationrates, real interest rates and real wage rates in three countries, we see that the outcomes of thetransformation were sharply different in the advanced capitalist countries, namely the UnitedStates and the United Kingdom, from those of in peripheral countries like Turkey.Keywords: Political economy, the United States, the United Kingdom, Turkey, neo-liberalism.