An evaluation of the share of Turkish Central Government expenditures within GDP between 1924 and 2016 in the background of the concept of "minimal state"
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2019
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Liberalism sets the object of minimal state in its historical trajectory of evolution since its emergence. In the contemporary times, neoliberalism has also vigorously maintained the minimal state objective and retrenched the state by new global realities since the mid-1970s. Neoliberalism emerging on a background of a coalition with conservatism against the Keynesian welfare state implementations comes to redefine the state by economically defined criteria including effectiveness and efficiency. In order to be able to put into practice the ideal of the minimal state, the neoliberal project has effectively used the tool of public expenditures, with endeavours attempting to keep the mentioned expenditures on its minimum scale. This work attempts to shed light on whether primary institutions of public sector keep up with the minimal state objective in Turkey, henceforth, the effort strives to measure and evaluate whether this tendency has been in effect for public expenditures and government budget expenditures for the Turkish case in her historical, political economy development. © Peter Lang AG 2019.