At the end of this course, the student will learn:
- 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.
- the changes which "broader administrative and political practice” in modern states go through as result of governance oriented reform programs.
- why and how "governance perspective" has become a dominant mode of thinking/discourse on administrative reform.
- spatial dynamics of global/supranational policy reforms that resulted in pressures for reform in different states.
- the role and place of different facets of globalisation in the formulation and implementation of pro-governance reforms.
- the role and place of the European Union in the formulation and implementation of pro-governance reforms.
- politico-institutional continuities and discontinuities between governance-oriented reforms and the past administrative practices in contemporary states.
- the micro-dynamics of change in the state-society and state-economy relations (re)producing the governance practice and thinking.
- the country-specific implications of the issues stated above in the case of Turkey.
- the future politico-administrative implications of "governance oriented reforms" and "governance thinking" for Turkey.