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Course Title: |
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS |
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Course Code: |
KAM 3306 |
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Type of Course: |
Compulsory |
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Level of Course: |
First Cycle |
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Year of Study: |
3 |
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Semester: |
6 |
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ECTS Credits Allocated: |
4 |
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Theoretical (hour/week): |
3 |
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Practice (hour/week) : |
0 |
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Laboratory (hour/week) : |
0 |
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Prerequisites: |
None |
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Recommended optional programme components: |
None |
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Language: |
Turkish |
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Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
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Course Coordinator: |
Prof. Dr. BEKIR PARLAK |
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Course Lecturers: |
Yrd.Doç.Dr.M. Zahid Sobacı |
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Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator: |
E-posta: bepar@uludag.edu.tr
Tel: 0224 2941116
Uludağ Üniversitesi İktisadi İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü
Görükle, 16059 Nilufer / BURSA
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Website: |
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Objective of the Course: |
The basic aim of the course is to provide the students with the knowledge of local governments in terms of their legal and institutional aspects as well as of the practice regarding local governments. Within this framework, topics including the history of local governments in Turkey, the current local government organization, the problems of local governments in Turkey and the different conceptions of local governments in the world will be examined during the course period. |
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Contribution of the Course to Professional Development |
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Theoretical |
Practical |
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The concept of Local Government:
a) The division between local and central governments
b) The scope and main characteristics of local governments
c) Local government practice in the world
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Local Governments in Turkey:
a) Local government practice in Turkey
b) The historical development of local governments in Turkey
c) Local governments in the Turkish Constitution
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Special Provincial Administrations:
a) Features and legal background
b) Duties and main organs
c) Finance, the organisation of Special Provincial Administration and administrative tutelage
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Municipalities:
a) Features and legal background
b) Duties and main organs
c) Finance, Budgeting and Administrative tutelage
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Great Metropolitan Municipalities:
a) Features and legal background
b) Duties and main organs
c) Finance, Budgeting and Special cases
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The Mayor, The foundation of the municipalities and Special cases about municipalities:
a) The election of the mayor, his/her duties and responsibilities,
b) The foundation and the separation of the municipalities and municipal officers.
c) The relation between state and the municipality as well as the relation between the municipality and the citizen
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Villages:
a) Features and legal background
b) Duties and main organs
c) Finance, Budgeting and Special cases
MIDTERM EXAM |
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Province, County and Town Administrations:
a) Provincial administrations and local extensions of the central government
b) County administrations and local extensions of the central government
c) Town Administrations
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Neighbourhood administrations:
a) Administrative organisation of Neighbourhoods
b) Neighbourhood Mukhtars
c) Other organisation implemented in Neighbourhoods
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Local Governments in the process of Turkey’s integration with European Union (EU):
a) Central and local government relations within the EU integration perspective
b) Local governments in the process of EU integration
c) Institutional restructuring of Turkish local governments in the process of EU integration
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Public Relations in Local Governments:
a) The connection of public relations with local governments
b) The organisatio of public relations in local governments
c) The principles of democratic and participatory local government
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Privatization in Local Governments:
a) Methods of privatization
b) Principles and administrative structuring
c) Financial dimension of participation to local government
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Information society and The relation between Local Governments and Environment:
a) Different dimensions of information society and information management in Turkey
b) Environmental management and local perspective
c) Environmentalism in Turkey and its relation with local governments.
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Local Government tradition in Turkey, Development Plans in Turkey and the EU:
a) The general problems of local governments in Turkey
b) Problem-solving practice and recommendations
c) Turkish local government approach in EU integration process and in Five-Year Development Plans
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