ABSTRACT
Development in Turkey during the postwar period has occurred in the context of democratic institutions and representative government. Breakdowns of democracy have typically accompanied periods of economic crisis, notably in the late 1950s and the late 1970s. Nonetheless, military interludes have been relatively short-lived and the democratic order has been restored after a brief period of transition. This pattern makes an interesting contrast with Brazil, for example, where a military government had been institutionalized for a period of 20 years following the simultaneous collapse of the import-substitution model and democracy in the mid-1960s. Hence, compared to the dominance of bureaucratic authoritarian politics during crucial periods of strategy shift in both East Asia and Latin America, Turkey has managed to combine moderate growth and significant industrial transformation within a broad framework of democratic institutions.1
