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State Reform in Turkey: Reasons, Needs and Strategies
Author(s) -
Yasamis Firuz D.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/j..2003.00352.x
Subject(s) - public sector , meritocracy , corporate governance , legislature , context (archaeology) , state (computer science) , politics , new public management , public administration , government (linguistics) , limiting , political science , economics , economic system , political economy , market economy , law , finance , mechanical engineering , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science , biology , engineering
The state structure in Turkey including all its branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial) at both the national and local levels has been shown to be ineffective, even irrelevant, to the ingrained demographic, social, economic and political exigencies of the country. One of the main reasons behind this is the collapse of public finance. Conventional rhetoric limiting solutions to administrative reform fails to provide a sufficiently broad enough context within which public sector reform in Turkey can be discussed. Turkey's determination to become a full member of the EU also necessitates a comprehensive and radical overhaul of the Turkish public sector with respect to efficiency and productivity. Five main strategies are proposed to assist Turkey in overcoming its state governance predicament: initiating and carrying out a state‐wide reform by employing modern principles of public management; understanding and solving the problem of internal and external debts; enhancing the conditions of governance; reintroduc‐ing and strengthening the principle of meritocracy in public sector and cooperating more with the EU.