REFORM OF THE METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY IN TERMS OF LOCAL AUTONOMY AND LOCAL DEMOCRACY Cover Image

YEREL ÖZERKLİK VE YEREL DEMOKRASİ AÇISINDAN BÜYÜKŞEHİR BELEDİYESİ REFORMU
REFORM OF THE METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY IN TERMS OF LOCAL AUTONOMY AND LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Author(s): Cansu Kaymal
Subject(s): Public Administration, Government/Political systems, Politics and law
Published by: Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Keywords: Metropolitan municipality; metropolitan municipality reform; local autonomy; local democracy; law no. 6360;

Summary/Abstract: Local autonomy and local democracy are among the foremost debates on local administrations in Turkey. These debates have come to fore in the context of developments in the world and changing management paradigms, and local autonomy and local democracy have been at the forefront reforms in the field of local administrations in an effort to harmonize with the European Union. These principles have also been implicated in the scale-driven metropolitan reforms. The aim of the article is to evaluate the adequacy of the reforms of the metropolitan municipalities, especially the innovations made by Law No. 6360, to find solutions to local autonomy and local democracy problems

  • Issue Year: 5/2017
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 1137-1159
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Turkish