New Public Management in Turkey
The last three decades in Turkey have seen an extensive shift towards a neoliberal agenda. Turkey has made many attempts at reforming existing governance systems in an effort to be accepted into the European Union, attracting the attention and curiosity of public management scholars worldwide. New Public Management in Turkey is the first book to analyze large-scale public administration reforms in Turkey according to the underlying principles of democracy, transparency, accountability, and localization.
Systematically examining the literature on Turkish local government over a 25-year period, this book presents a comprehensive look at reform and its consequences through the lens of comparative public administration. The scholarly contributions to this volume from academics teaching at universities throughout Turkey offer a multi-dimensional and multi-functional analysis embracing a variety of viewpoints. Utilizing Turkeys rapid adaptations to the changing trends in public management as a case study, this book will serve as a unique and valuable policy guide for politicians and legislators seeking to develop a democratic and localized governance structure in a variety of contexts.
Yksel Demirkaya is Associate Professor at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey.
New Public Management in Turkey is an essential reading material for those who are interested in understanding the challenges of administrative reform in a complex and specific context. The capacity of the authors to identify important problems in designing and implementing reform at both national and local levels is impressive.
Calin Hintea, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
The peculiarity of the cultural and political context, the role of external and internal forces that drove the Turkish public administration reform process, and the specific focus on local government make this book an important contribution to a theoretical and practical understanding of public management for both Turkish and international audiences. Scholars as well as politicians and practitioners will find this book a very good multidisciplinary analysis of a complex, long-term public sector reform process.
Riccardo Mussari, University of Siena, Italy
This book offers a rare and much needed contribution to the European public administration body of knowledge. It provides valuable insights into Turkish local government based on retrospective accounts of reforms, assessments of current practices, and informed references to comparative research. The scholar will find original ideas and reliable new data from the field. Public leaders will find inspiration to enhance the capacities of local governments to deal with the development and modernization needs of our societies.
Emil Turc, Aix-Marseille University, France
Because this comprehensive book on renewing Turkish local government provides a real state of the art analsysis, it offers an inspiration and an agenda for all those involved in decentralization, capacity building, and democratic governance at the local level.
Geert Bouckaert, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
I recommend this book to every student and researcher interested in understanding how a country with a strong Napoleonic administrative system can adopt a new public management agenda. Focusing on local government, this book provides us with a full analysis on the trends of reforms related to human resources, performance management, and ethics. It also offers a profitable debate that addresses metropolitan problems and how to balance privatization, accountability, and autonomy of services.
Miguel Angelo Vilela Rodrigues, Polytechnic Institute of Bragana, Portugal
This book is a much needed contribution to Public Administration and Public Management. It represents a first-rate overview on long-term developments and recent reforms at the local level and an outstanding up-to-date analysis of administrative modernization in Turkey. The book is a must read for researchers and practitioners interested in Turkish local government reforms and in Comparative Public Administration.
Sabine Kuhlmann, University of Potsdam, Germany
New Public Management in
Turkey
Local Government Reform
Edited by Yksel Demirkaya
First published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Demirkaya, Yksel, editor of compilation.
Title: New public management in Turkey : local government reform /
edited by Yksel Demirkaya.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2016. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015032782| ISBN 9781498742153 (cloth : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781315641287 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Local government Turkey. | Public administration
Turkey. | Government accountability Turkey. | Democratization
Turkey.
Classification: LCC JS6953.A8 N48 2016 | DDC 352.1409561dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015032782
ISBN: 978-1-4987-4215-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-64128-7 (ebk)
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Contents
PART I
Reconstruction in Public Sector
HAMZA ATE AND FATIH AKBULUT
KEMAL ZDEN
MUSTAFA KEMAL KTEM AND LEYLA IFTI
MUSTAFA TAYYAR KARAYIIT
TARKAN OKTAY
HANDE TEK TURAN
PART II
Performance Management and Institutionalization
MER FARUK GENKAYA
KAMIL UFUK BILGIN
YKSEL DEMIRKAYA
HARUN KIRILMAZ
BAHADIR AHIN
HACER TUBA EROLU
PART III
Metropolitan Management
YAAR KABATA , ZEKERIYA DEMIR, AND NIZAMLMLK GNE
HSEYIN GL
NIHAL EKIN ERKAN AND CLAL ATTILA
AYE TEKEL
FATMA NEVAL GEN
UUR MRGNLEN AND UUR SADIOLU
Fatih Akbulut is Secretary General in Kocaeli University. Previously he worked as sub-governor. He received his MA in Public Management and Public Politics from University of Exeter, UK, and his PhD from Ankara University. He conducted various projects and he attended many international conferences, workshops and seminars.
Hamza Ate graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences. He received his MA from the University of Durham Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, and his PhD from Institute of Public Administration and Management of The University of Liverpool, UK. Currently, he is a professor of public administration in Istanbul Medeniyet University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Politics and Public Administration. Ate has written extensively on new developments in public administration, regional development, wetland governance, urban issues, local government development, strategic management, performance management and human resource planning development in public organizations. He also served as consultant to local government organizations.
