Coproduction of participation policies in Turkey: The making of city councils |
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Authors: | Melike Yalçın-Riollet |
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Institution: | ARèNES Centre for Research on Political Action in Europe, Rennes, France |
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Abstract: | This paper uses the case of the city councils to study the introduction of new possibilities for citizen participation in Turkish policy-making. In Turkish political science literature, city councils are simply described either as a result of the coercive influence of international organizations, or a ‘civil society’ initiative included in the agenda by the political power. The paper demonstrates that these participatory mechanisms have been coproduced by a complex network of domestic state and non-state actors, yet are not fully controlled by any of the actors engaged in their making. |
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