Özet:

One of the criticisms against the representative bureaucracy, which suggests that representing disadvantaged groups in the bureaucracy will provide a more responsive public administration, is that it harms the distributional equity rather than benefiting. According to this understanding, representative bureaucracy is a zero-sum game and the benefits it provides to minorities are at the expense of other groups. In other words, this situation brings disadvantaged groups a profit, while victimizing other groups (especially at the point of receiving public service), and so overshadowing the promise of equality for all social groups in the delivery of the representative bureaucracy. In this context, existing study aims to contribute to the relevant national literature discussing the percentage of correction of this claim for a theory (representative bureaucracy) which has seen very limited amount of importance in Turkey, and aims to offer a different perspective to this approach. For this purpose, the related literature has been reviewed and the claim in question has been tried to be evaluated by examining the researches made on representative bureaucracy. As a result, it has been revealed that the representative bureaucracy is not a zero-sum game and representative bureaucrats provide an increasing number of public services to other groups as well as their own groups, while delivering public services.

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