The empowerment of Turkish governors within hybrid settings of public administration |
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Authors: | Cemil Yıldızcan Ulaş Bayraktar |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Political Science, Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey;2. Independent scholar |
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Abstract: | The widespread reforms of Turkish public administration and the machinery of government from 2000s onwards resulted in a gradual delegation of certain state’s functions to local and non-state actors, through a gradual rescaling of the policy-making systems and a remarkable hybridization of governance logics. The relevant literature focuses largely on the rising role and importance of involving non-state actors rather than state officials in policy-making processes. The paper explains how the scope and the method of public agents’ influence adapt to the current context of so-called neoliberalization of public administration in Turkey. The paper discusses in detail provincial governors with regard to their relatively ‘disguised’ power in social and economic policies through new hybrid mechanisms. |
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