Local Government A Turkish Perspective

This book introduces basic concepts and offers you the tools to understand the notion of local government and touate how decentralisation works in a particular context. I hope this book will be of interest to public officials and those interested in public governance as well as students of social sciences including public administration, local government, political science and sociology.

	The Notıon Of Local Government
	Definition, Scope and Importance of Local Government, Hamza Ateş
	Theories of Local Government, Bekir Parlak
	The Concepts of Decentralization, Nahide Işıl Çetinkaya İstikbal
	Local Service Delivery and Local Participation, Mustafa Kömürcüoğlu
	Turkısh Local Government: Past And Present
	History of Local Government and Local Governance, Nilüfer Negiz, Ahmet Uçar
	Local Government in the Constitution and Major Local Government Laws, Sezai Öztop
	Municipalities, Fatma Neval Genç
	Special Provincial Administrations, Hande Tek Turan, Yılmaz Başar Özer
	Villages, Yakup Bulut, Soner Akın
	Local Services, A. Muhammet Banazılı
	Municipal Corporations and Municipal Entrepreneurship, Filiz Tufan Emini
	Local Government Finance, Ahmet Barbak
	Selected Issues In Turkısh Local Government
	Development Agencies and Departments of Investment Monitoring And Coordination, Rasim Akpınar – Ayça Berna Görmez
	Inter–Municipal Co–Operation and Consolidation, Pınar Savaş Yavuzçehre, Volkan Göçoğlu, Naci Karkın
	Governance and Participation Methods in Turkish Local Governments, Mustafa Lamba
	Audit Mechanisms and Administrative Tutelage over Turkish Local Governments, Mustafa Kömürcüoğlu
	The Problems of Local Governments in Turkey and Solution Proposals, Zuhal Önez Çetin
	A Comparative Analysis on Local Government Reforms in the Century's Turkey, Burak Hamza Eryiğit, Aydın Akpınar