ABSTRACT

The contours of the theory and praxis of Kemalism, the Kemalist variants of social democracy and the Third Way evolved under the challenges and opportunities of the external and internal institutional environment. In theoretical terms, Table 7.1 (p. 156) illustrates the main policy strategies of the CHP, the SHP and the DSP, the political parties that conceptualised and implemented these paradigms. Figure 10.1 illustrates the varying combinations of state-market-society and class interaction in terms of the extent to which they were adopted by the CHP and its successors (but not in terms of universally accepted standards of social democracy). In practical terms, Tables 6.3 and 6.4 illustrate the institutional environment under which these political parties have acted and the major actors with which they engaged in power relations. In this section, I will examine these theoretical and practical evolutions within the extent of the theoretico-practical interaction of the Ottoman-Turkish political economy with European and global capitalism, as depicted in Figure II.1 (p. 71). Thus, the theory-praxis-ideology and pragmatism of these parties and their path-dependent changes require a multipronged institutional system analysis. As I have discussed in nearly all analytic material in the tables and figures above, in this section, I will concentrate on the transtemporal, evolutionary and dialectic specifications with a visual reference to the inquiry of what is next for these parties.