Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
The 32nd Conference on Economics (TEA2025), Gazimagusa, Kıbrıs (Kktc), 13 - 15 Kasım 2025, ss.181-182, (Özet Bildiri)
Religion, as an institutional structure, emerges as a decisive
factor in shaping economic preferences. Weber (1930), in explaining the success
of capitalism, emphasized religion—particularly Christianity—as a crucial
factor, thereby making the role of religiosity in economic decision-making more
visible. However, the applicability of this perspective within the Islamic
context has been both contested and subjected to further scholarly debate. This
study draws on data from the World Values Survey to examine the impact of
religiosity on redistribution preferences in Türkiye, a country with a
predominantly Muslim population but a constitutionally secular framework,
across two periods: before and after 2010. The findings reveal that, prior to
2010, religious individuals tended to oppose redistribution through state
intervention, whereas this effect appears to have disappeared in the post-2010
period. This shift suggests a transformation in both the nature of religiosity
and its influence on socio-economic preferences in contemporary Türkiye.