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This article investigates the major characteristics and principles of economic conservatism with an analysis of the ideas of medieval and later religious scholars in the Christian and the Muslim world, mercantilism as an economic currency of thought, and the advocacies and the campaigns of the conservative political movements and thinkers in the economic sphere to the early 20th century. It is argued in the article that these actors and phenomena have contributed to the formation of a conservative view to economy which cast itself in form of support for extensive state involvement in the economy, development of national economies, public welfare, social state, taxation of the wealth, favourable trade balance, distributive justice, agrarianism; and opposition to monopolization, black-marketing, speculation, interest, usury, luxury, indulgence, acquisition of wealth without moral concern. Particularly in the US example from 19th century onwards, reaction to capitalism was the most important second characteristic of economic conservatism after the support for an economically active state for capitalism was deemed to suffer from a substantial moral gap that threatened the social foundations of the country. DOI:10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3p11

This article compares the political program and style of Turkey's Justice and Development Party (JDP) with the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) of Egypt. The article explores significant similarities between two parties and traces them in common political and economic background conditions. These two conservative parties share in their style of politics characterized as pragmatist, pluralist, gradualist, multilateral, and internationalist with their common goals to bring solutions to decades old solution-waiting economic and political problems of the countries shortly identified as economic underdevelopment, unemployment, poverty, lack or violation of basic human rights and liberties. For the same purpose, the parties share in their support for democracy, human rights, rule of law and economic rationalism. The parties differ in their view to the role of religion in public life, however, for while JDP is characterized as a secularist party of liberal type, the FJP is known with the goal to Islamize the Egyptian political system much as permitted by democratic norms. ; Bu makale Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisiyle (AKP) Mısır'da faaliyet gösteren Özgürlük ve Kalkınma Partisi (ÖKP) siyasi programları ve üslupları yönünden karşılaştırılmaktadır. Makale iki ayrı parti arasında önemli benzerlikler olduğunu keşfetmekte ve bunun sebebini sahip olunan benzer siyasi ve iktisadi şartlara bağlamaktadır. Bu iki muhafazakar parti siyasi üslup yönüyle pragmatist,çoğulcu, tedricii çok taraflı ve çok yönlü olmaları; programları yönüyle de her iki ülkede yıllardır çözüm bekleyen iktisadi kalkınamamışlık,işsizlik , fakirlik, temel insan hak ve özgürlükleri ihlali gibi sorunlara çözüm getirme çabası içinde olmaları konusunda büyük benzerlikler taşımaktadır. Yine aynı üslup ve gayelerle her iki parti ciddi anlamda demokrasi, insan hakları, hukuk devleti ve iktisadi akılcılık yanlısı olmaları noktasında birbirine son derece yakındır. Fakat bu iki parti dinin siyasi hayattaki rolüyle ilgili görüş ve uygulamalar konusunda birbirinden ...

"This volume examines contemporary political relations between Turkey and the Middle East. In the light of the Arab uprisings of 2011, the Syria crisis, the escalation of regional terrorism and the military coup attempt in Turkey. It illustrates the dramatic fluctuations in Turkish foreign policy towards key Middle Eastern countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The contributors analyze Turkey's deepening involvement in Middle Eastern regional affairs, also addressing issues such as terrorism, social and political movements and minority rights struggles. While these problems have traditionally been regarded as domestic matters, this book highlights their increasingly regional dimension and implications for the foreign affairs of Turkey and countries in the Middle East." -- Back cover