ABSTRACT

The social state is one of the most important concepts of the capitalist order. In the doctrine, the social state is explained from various points such as social risks, regulation of income distribution, development of social rights, and political representation of the working class. On the other hand, the regulation theory which has been developed in France since the beginning of the 1970s constitutes a very different approach in explaining the social state. The regulation theory, which articulates concepts and empirical implements, has become a worldwide accepted approach in the 1980s. In this study, the concept of the social state is explained in a way that is based on the regulation theory. Nowadays, studies on social state generally focus on social state models. On this basis, the development and transformation of Fordism forms which corresponding to institutionalizes social state models are examined. In this context, the effects of two different crises in the capitalist order on the social state and social state models have been solved with the developed econometric models