Abstract:

As the globalization process has created a rapid transformation throughout the world, due to incorporation of the “local” into the “global” brings the localization arguments on our agenda. Localization had created new changes on the status of local administrations within the framework of autonomy and participation. With the effect of neoliberal policies realized in Turkey starting from 1980’s, the reform studies were sped up in the field of public administration. During this process, significant legal amendments were enacted especially on the subject of local administrations. By the final one of these amendments, the 6360 numbered law which is known as “municipality of whole city” rather than the “metropolitan municipality”; new metropolitan municipalities are established and the administrative borders of metropolitan municipalities are extended up to the administrative borders of provincial administrations. In this article, Law No 6360 is reviewed within the context of localization. It is seen within this framework that; the powers of the central administration becomes denser over the local administrations by this law. However, it is also seen that this law has no contributions on the participation and democratization aspects of the local administrations of which are the most important characteristics of local administrations

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