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DESCRIPTION:European Union\, especially expanding its borders after 1990s a
 nd intensifying its integration process within the union\, gives great imp
 ortance to local and regional administrations around the principle of subs
 idiarity and perception of democratic governance. EU demands all of the ca
 ndidate member states to harmonize their national laws and regulations wit
 h EU directives. Turkey\, started its membership negotiations as a candida
 te member state in 2005\, had already launched reforms on local and region
 al administrations in 2002. For the last thirty years\, different Turkish 
 governments have made some attempts to reform public administration in gen
 eral and local government administrations in specific. However\, reforms i
 n the last decade have been the most successful ones to make public admini
 strations more accountable and to empower the local authorities to deliver
  local services better at the local level. These reforms are triggered by 
 both internal dynamics such as the change in the structure of the Turkish 
 economy\, rapid urbanization\, increasing demand for more democracy and de
 velopment of civil society\; as well as external dynamics such as globaliz
 ation and European Union (EU) membership process. European Union\, especia
 lly expanding its borders after 1990s and intensifying its integration pro
 cess within the union\, gives great importance to local and regional admin
 istrations around the principle of subsidiarity and perception of democrat
 ic governance. EU demands all of the candidate member states to harmonize 
 their national laws and regulations with EU directives. Turkey\, started i
 ts membership negotiations as a candidate member state in 2005\, had alrea
 dy launched reforms on local and regional administrations in 2002. For the
  last thirty years\, different Turkish governments have made some attempts
  to reform public administration in general and local government administr
 ations in specific. However\, reforms in the last decade have been the mos
 t successful ones to make public administrations more accountable and to e
 mpower the local authorities to deliver local services better at the local
  level. These reforms are triggered by both internal dynamics such as the 
 change in the structure of the Turkish economy\, rapid urbanization\, incr
 easing demand for more democracy and development of civil society\; as wel
 l as external dynamics such as globalization and European Union (EU) membe
 rship process. Pizza lunch will be served. 
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SUMMARY:MERC presents: Fatih Akbulut
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:European Union\, especially expanding its bord
 ers after 1990s and intensifying its integration process within the union\
 , gives great importance to local and regional administrations around the 
 principle of subsidiarity and perception of democratic governance. EU dema
 nds all of the candidate member states to harmonize their national laws an
 d regulations with EU directives. Turkey\, started its membership negotiat
 ions as a candidate member state in 2005\, had already launched reforms on
  local and regional administrations in 2002. For the last thirty years\, d
 ifferent Turkish governments have made some attempts to reform public admi
 nistration in general and local government administrations in specific. Ho
 wever\, reforms in the last decade have been the most successful ones to m
 ake public administrations more accountable and to empower the local autho
 rities to deliver local services better at the local level. These reforms 
 are triggered by both internal dynamics such as the change in the structur
 e of the Turkish economy\, rapid urbanization\, increasing demand for more
  democracy and development of civil society\; as well as external dynamics
  such as globalization and European Union (EU) membership process. Europea
 n Union\, especially expanding its borders after 1990s and intensifying it
 s integration process within the union\, gives great importance to local a
 nd regional administrations around the principle of subsidiarity and perce
 ption of democratic governance. EU demands all of the candidate member sta
 tes to harmonize their national laws and regulations with EU directives. T
 urkey\, started its membership negotiations as a candidate member state in
  2005\, had already launched reforms on local and regional administrations
  in 2002. For the last thirty years\, different Turkish governments have m
 ade some attempts to reform public administration in general and local gov
 ernment administrations in specific. However\, reforms in the last decade 
 have been the most successful ones to make public administrations more acc
 ountable and to empower the local authorities to deliver local services be
 tter at the local level. These reforms are triggered by both internal dyna
 mics such as the change in the structure of the Turkish economy\, rapid ur
 banization\, increasing demand for more democracy and development of civil
  society\; as well as external dynamics such as globalization and European
  Union (EU) membership process. Pizza lunch will be served. 
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