Student who passed this course will be able to:
- develop and awareness of different meanings attached to the term governance as an "umbrella concept", and the reasons behind why different political/policy actors subscribe to these different interpretations.
- identify the changes which "broader administrative and political practice” in modern states go through as result of governance oriented reform programs.
- examine spatial dynamics of global/supranational policy reforms that resulted in pressures for reform in a given state.
- develop refined analyses of how different facets of globalisation could shape the formulation and implementation of pro-governance reforms.
- develop refined analyses of how the European Union actually shapes the formulation and implementation of pro-governance reforms both abroad and in Turkey.
- formulate country specific research questions to examine how governance oriented blueprints for reform are actually translated into practice.
- formulate refined research questions as they are set to examine the micro-dynamics of change in the state-society and state-economy relations (re)producing the governance practice and thinking.