Özet:

Politicization is one of the primary administrative problems arising from the existence of excessive relationships between administration and politics. In a politicized administration in the most general sense, administration displays political behaviors or acts under the shadow of political power. While favoritism is an administrative problem in itself, it is also among the primary problems of public administration that become more apparent with politicization. In an administration with practices of favoritism, many administrative values and the principle of merit in particular cannot be applied, and public administration fails to perform duties expected of it. Thus, politicization and favoritism constitute a major problem for public administration that must be overcome. Ethics and justice play a significant role in solving this problem, because ethics and justice are fundamental phenomena that have impact on from ensuring that administration has all the values required for making public administration effective to the acting of administration in accordance with its purpose. In a public administration not safeguarding ethics and justice, the concept of right in its broadest sense gets lost; many administrative problems, politicization and favoritism in particular, arise, and the needs of the public are not satisfied. This study first defines the concepts of politicization and favoritism, and reveals how politicization and favoritism have become a problem in Turkish public administration. Then, it proposes solutions based on ethics and justice to overcome the problem of politicization and favoritism in Turkish public administration.

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