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Reconsidering the Role of the Prefects in Turkey: Public Policies and Metropolization

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  • Can Umut Çiner

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Prefects are considered important actors in the formation of different public policies in Turkey. While prefects and sub-prefects are empowered by means of new policies, their roles are also altered during the process of strengthening local governments. This alteration process represents the spirit of the state reform in its broadest range, that is, the conflict between the central and the local. Another new public policy for Turkey is metropolization. The administrative structure of Turkey has been dramatically changed by the introduction of the new Metropolitan Municipality Law (Law No. 6360, 2012). Representing a major change, this law added 14 more metropolitan municipalities to the already existing 16, and abolished Special Provincial Administrations within the metropolitan municipalities. This study aims to explain the reforms made on a metropolitan level together with the transformation of the government, the central–local conflict, and the prefects’ role in these reform and transformation processes in Turkey.

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  • Can Umut Çiner, 2014. "Reconsidering the Role of the Prefects in Turkey: Public Policies and Metropolization," International Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(8), pages 445-455, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:lpadxx:v:37:y:2014:i:8:p:445-455
    DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2014.903277
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