Abstract:

This paper is an attempt to evaluate how political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal (so called PESTEL drivers), changes or developments have appeared in public administrations since 1980s. Moreover, by comparing two dissimilar examples, this article would explain how different countries have different types of structural and process changes, although International Organizations such as EU, IMF and World Bank offer them similar structures. The first chapter will focus on general public administration reform and its nature in order to show those changes. In the second chapter the case of the United Kingdom and Turkey’s Local Government Reforms will be used to illustrate how reform drivers and success factors are different from each other. In the last part the paper will give two different examples from the UK and Turkey. Finally, this paper evaluated that although both countries had a reform agenda, their experiences were quite different from each other and from a comparative view on differences and similarities of the reform processes the paper highlighted some cases about the two countries.

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