ABSTRACT

This paper considers the financing dimensions of the social solidarity. A contribution to the social solidarity of the financing mechanisms can be simply measured by their own degree of socializing the costs of social policy. Therefore, first, it discusses in the liability of the alternative financing means to provide social solidarity. Then, it determines the general aspects of the dimensions of spending and the financing of the social solidarity in Turkey. And then, the paper examines in the degree of socializing the costs of social policy by the mechanism of taxation in Turkey. The results here show that the social solidarity in Turkey is in fact confined almost in-class solidarity. So, it can be clearly claimed that the financing instruments impose mainly the fiscal burden of the social policy on the social segments which are the potential beneficiaries of social policy