ABSTRACT
The evolutionary contours of Ottoman-Islam, the Just Order and Conservative Democracy can be seen in Figure II.1 (p. 71) in dialectic interaction with Kemalism, Turkish social democracy and global capitalism. Under the constraints and opportunities of the internal and external institutional environment and inter-actor power relations, the patterns of change in Ottoman-Turkish Islam, in political economy terms, have been changing continuities in the face of continuing path-dependencies over the first three quarters of the nineteenth century (before the first Constitutional Monarchy), continuing path-dependencies in the face of changing continuities between 1876–1908 (during the reign of Abdülhamit II), the re-accumulation of discontinuing path-dependencies vis-à-vis the persistence of path-dependent discontinuities (the Just Order) between the late 1960s and the early 2000s and, finally, the great reconciliation between continuing changes and changing discontinuities (Conservative Democracy) from 2002 onwards.
