Article type :

Original article

Author :

Fesih BAYRAKTAR

Volume :

1

Issue :

2

Abstract :

This study focuses on ‘governance paradigm’ in terms of its break and continuity relations with neoliberalizm and neoliberal policies. ‘Governance’ in the mainstream literature is considered as a ‘third way’ that has a social logic different from both the state (coordination, cooperation, reconciliation and partnership instead of one-centered and hierarchical management) and the market (coordination and partnership instead of competition; social cohesion instead of profitability; civil society instead of market), and, therefore, portrayed as a break with the marketoriented neoliberal approach. The study aims to bring into question this dominant approach about ‘governance’ and its relationship with neoliberalism and argues that ‘governance’ is not a break but an approach put forward to reformulate neoliberalism by taking into the state and the civil society and consequently consolidate neoliberal policies, by addressing theoretically the basic premises concerning the concept and practically how and why neoliberalism functionalizes it.