Abstract:

City councils are local parliaments based on volunteer work and are constituted in order to support participation to local democracy, develop a civic consciousness, generate a common sense while solving basic problems of the city, develop the right of town-dwellers and townsman, to contribute to the usage of city sources effectively and productively and help to form a common sense while both solving the city problems and making strategical plans related to the future. City councils, which enable the townsmen to participate in the local municipality administration is the main purpose of this study by searching of the realization degrees and its contribution to the democracy. According to the aim of the study, a survey has been performed with exemplary councils in order to me a sure the effect of city councils on local democracies. The sample of research includes the metropolitan city councils in Turkey. As a result of the study, it was seen that city councils strengthened local democracy, but the decisions of city councils regarding the city were not taken into consideration by the municipalities.

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