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Instructors: Muhammet Kösecik
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Dept. 02 - Institute of Political Science
Displayed in timetable as:
LokPolVerw
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 20
Digital Teaching:
Onine via Zoom
Course Contents:
Course Content: Structure and powers of Turkish administration; the executive, central administration and local administration, advisory and regulatory authorities, functional and geographical decentralisation; local governments, reform agenda in local government towards local governance, local democracy, local politics, central-local government relations; reforms in Turkish public administration, new public management and governance in Turkish model, public administration in the New Presidential System.
Further Grading Information:
COURSE INFORMATION
Course Type: Elective Language of Teaching: English
Prerequisites: None
COURSE INSTRUCTIONS
The reading list of relevant references given by the lecturer should be read by the students for each week’s topic. These publications will be uploaded by the lecture onto the system or made available via data sharing platforms. The lecturer will also organize three Video Conference Meetings via internet apps at which major topics and issues of public administration and local governance will be summarized and discussed by the lecturer with the interactive participation of the students. The precise date for the video conference meetings will also be announced beforehand.
ASSESSMENT METHOD: TAKE HOME-ASSIGNMENTS*
Mid-Term Assignment (Take-Home): %40 of total passing grade.
End-Term Assignment (Take-Home): %60 of total passing grade.
Students are required to submit two take-home assignments consisting of general and analytical questions to test the students’ ability to understand the structure and functions of Turkish public administration and local governance as well as interpreting current issues in these fields. The assignment topics and assessment criteria for the take-home exams and the writing framework will be announced after the topics of PART I and PART II are discussed in the video conference meetings, in the end of November 2020 and the January 2021 respectively.
*The exam type would vary in accordance with each student`s own course registration and programme graduation requirements.
Deadlines for the Submissions
First Assignment: to be announced
Second Assignment: to be announced
Official Course Description:
Course Objectives: The purpose of this course is providing a general knowledge on the structures of Turkish public administration and responsibilities of public organisations at the central and local government level. This course also aimed at giving major themes and outcomes of emerging trends and reform agenda in public administration and local government in Turkey towards public and local governance as well as discussing the changing characteristics of the system under the new presidential system.
Additional Information:
COURSE PROGRAMME | TOPICS
PART I Structure and Powers of Turkish Public Administration
Week 1-Introduction | Course Syllabus
Week 2-The Executive: Presidency and Ministries
Week 3-Administration: Central (Capital) and Provincial Organisations
Week 4-Advisory and Regulatory Authorities
v VIDEO CONFERENCE MEETING-I
PART II Decentralised Administration: Structures and Functions
Week 5-Functional Decentralisation
Universities, Scientific Institutions, Professional Chambers, Public Enterprises
Week 6-Geographically Decentralisation |Local Governments
Municipalities & Greater Municipalities| Provincial Special Authorities | Villages
v VIDEO CONFERENCE MEETING-II
PART III Emerging Trends of Local Governance in Turkey
Week 7-Reform Agenda in the 2000s: Government to Governance
Week 8-European Integration |European Multi- Level Governance
Week 9-Local Democracy | Local Politics | Central-Local Government Relations
Discussion: Alternatives to Strengthen Local Governance
v VIDEO CONFERENCE MEETING-III
PART IV Public Administration Reforms of the 2000s in Turkey
Week 10-Reforms in Public Administration since 2000s
Week 11-New Public Management and Governance in Turkish Model
Week 12-Public Administration in the New Presidential System
Week 13-General Discussion
v VIDEO CONFERENCE MEETING-IV
ASSIGNMENTS
ª MID-TERM TAKE-HOME ASSIGNMENT
ª END-TERM TAKE HOME-ASSIGNMENT
READING LIST
Reading resources for the course is given below. These resources will be provided by the lecturer by uploading those documents to electronic learning platform provided by the university or e-mailing directly. The lecturer will also prepare summarising tables or diagrams for general understanding of the topics and make them available for the participant students of the course.
PART I
01-Colak, Cagri D., Sener, Bülent and Bilgili, Muhammed Yunus (2017) “Comparative Analysis of the Turkish Presidential System with Government Systems Including Separation of Powers”, Kastamonu Üniversitesi Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, Cilt 18, Sayi 1, ICEBSS 2017 Özel Sayi Kastamonu Üniversity Journal of faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences- Volume 18, Issue 1, ICEBSS 2017 Special Issue.
02---(2017) Turkey’s Constitutional Reform a Review of Constitutional History, Current Parliamentary System, Nr: 004, Publisher: TRT World.
03-Karagöz, Serdar (2017) Constitutional Referendum in Turkey, DS Centre for Policy Studies, Ankara.
04-Sobaci, Mehmet Zahid, Köseoglu Özer, And Mis Nebi (2018) “Reorganization of the Central Government and the New Policy-Making Process in Turkish Presidential System”, Insight Turkey, Vol. 20, No. 4, 183-210. Insight Turkey
05-Marszalek-Kawa, Joanna and Burak, Ahmet (2018) The Political System of the Republic of Turkey, Past and Present, Nicolaus Copernicus University in TorunORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4201-8028.
Supplementary Reports
Bertelsmann Stiftung (2020) BTI 2020 Country Report — Turkey. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung.
European Commission (2020) Countries insights Key findings of the 2020 Report on Turkey Brussels, 6 October 2020.
Freedom House (2021) Freedom in the World 2021 Country Report, Washington.
PART II
06-Kosecik, M. and Sagbas, I.(2004) “Public Attitudes to Local Government in Turkey: A Research on Knowledge, Satisfaction and Complaining”, Local Government Studies, 30 (3), 360-383.
07-Kosecik, Muhammet (2011) “Turkish Local Electoral System”, Support to Further Implementation of Local Administration Reform in Turkey LAR Phase II.
08-Akilli, Husniye and Akilli, H. Serkan (2014) “Decentralization and recentralization of local governments in Turkey”, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 140 ( 2014 ) 682 – 686.
PART II
09-Kosecik, Muhammet and Huseyin Ozgur (2009) “Transformation of the Turkish Local Government to Governance From Historical Perspective”, Contemporary Issues in Public Policy and Administrative Organizations in South East Europe, Mikro Vintar and Primoz Pevcin (editors), Univerza v Ljubljani, Ljubljani, 154-202.
10-Cetin, Zuhal Onez (2015) “The Reflections of New Public Management on Local Government Laws in Turkey”, Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, Vol 6 No 4, 36-47.
11-Tan, Evrim (2018) “Quo vadis? The local government in Turkey after public management reforms”, International Review of Administrative Sciences, 0 (0) 1-19.
PART IV
12-Özçelik, Ali Onur (2019) “Europeanization and Administrative Relations in Turkey in the Post-Helsinki Era”, The International Spectator, 54:4, 32-46.
13- Yilmaz, Üstüner and Nilay, Yavuz (2018) “Turkey’s Public Administration Today: An Overview and Appraisal”, International Journal of Public Administration, 41 (10), 820-831.
14-Sözen, Süleyman (2012) “Recent Administrative Reforms in Turkey: A Preliminary Assessment”, International Journal of Business and Social Science Vol. 3 No. 9, 168-173.
15-Soós, Edit (2016) “Challenges Of Public Administration In Turkey”, Scientific Cooperations 2nd International Conference On Social Sciences, 2-3 April 2016, Istanbul-Turkey.
16-Öktem. M. Kemal (2010) “Innovation with public administration in Turkey”, Jan. 2010, Volume 7, No.1 (Serial No.51) Journal of US-China Public Administration, 42-50.
17-Batuhan, Aydagül (2007) Turkey country case study 2007, Country profile prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2008, Education for All by 2015: will we make it?, 2008/ED/EFA/MRT/PI/13.
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