Politics and class: The Turkish business environment in the neoliberal age

New Perspectives on Turkey

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-63

  Buǧra, Ayşe ^a   Savaşkan, Osman ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Government business relations; Neoliberalism; Political Islam; Spatial relocation of industry; Voluntary business organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870809143     PISSN: 13053299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0896634600001503     Document Type: Article

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