ABSTRACT
“State, democracy, non-governmental organizations and interconnectivity among economic/social/juridical spaces” create the main axis of today’s globalization process. This article examines the economic and social developments which lie behind the deficiencies of relations among state, civil-society and participatory democracy in the Turkish context.The main hypothesis is based on the argument that the principal developments in the global economy that has been going on since the last quarter of the 20th century has an important impact on the current economic, social and political problems in Turkey. The article further puts forward the idea that participative democracy is built on the institutions which came with industrialization process and investigates the complex relations between “de-industrialization” and “democracy deficit” in the context of the global political economy
Keywords : democracy deficit, globalization, de-industrialization, political economy of Turkey