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This paper aims at examining the relationship between accountability and democracy in municipalities in Türkiye and the Turkish Court of Accounts' (TCA) regularity audits. TCA is one of the most established institutions in Turkish political history. In academic literature, however, the role of TCA is mostly addressed in terms of public financial management or legal institutional changes. Although accountability is frequently mentioned in these studies, it is not sufficiently defined. Therefore, it is not clearly demonstrated that the functions of TCA and political accountability are organically related. To fill this gap, this study consists of three sections. First, a conceptual framework that examines the relationship between political accountability and TCA's audit of public institutions will be drawn. Second, the regularity audits in municipalities by TCA and its findings will be analyzed based on data from the External Audit Evaluation Reports. Based on these findings, a third section aims at building an analytical framework for a discussion of TCA audits, its formal consequences and the implications of reported findings for political accountability and democracy. In conclusion, the study shows that horizontal accountability in municipalities is not ensured, particularly in areas that affect municipal budgets in the long term, and the findings are further related to practices undermining the democratic features of the local political system in terms of horizontal accountability, the rule of law, democratic sustainability and representation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to elucidate the roles and responsibilities of municipalities, particularly as the final beneficiaries of projects executed under the Pre-Accession Assistance Instrument, by examining the Niksar Integrated Water Facility project as a case study. The research data were collected through a face-to-face interview with the Head of the Project Implementation Unit of the Niksar (Tokat) Municipality. Using semi-structured interview techniques, the data were subjected to descriptive analysis, interpreted, and thematically organized for a more profound understanding. The study integrates both primary sources and interview data to draw its conclusions. The research reveals that municipalities are intricately involved in nearly all stages of the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance management, including programming, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting. In the project management phases, municipalities serve as pivotal intermediary authorities, facilitating communication between sectoral institutions, consultancy firms, and contractors. Moreover, the study underscores that the level of interest and ownership demonstrated by municipalities significantly influences the success of the project, from its inception through to its effective execution and completion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Firefighting is a profession that is among the most challenging tasks, is quite risky for employees but is of vital importance for civilians. It is of great importance for firefighters to be both physically and psychologically ready for a task that may arise at any time. The lack of complete physical and psychological readiness of firefighters can lead to irreversible consequences. It can be argued that firefighters working in shifts do not have sufficient physical activity opportunities due to both the undetermined end times and the intense work tempo, but it is essential for firefighters to engage in regular physical activity, and it is obvious that this will positively affect their health status and task performance. The aim of this study was to examine the physical activity, self-handicapping and self-esteem levels of firefighters. Similar studies in the literature are limited. It is believed that this study will contribute to filling the gap in the literature and revealing the physical activity, self-handicapping and self-esteem levels of firefighters. 767 active firefighters in several municipalities voluntarily participated in the research. Ethics Committee Approval was obtained from Hitit University Non-Interventional Researches Ethics Committee. Informed consents were obtained from the participants. SPSS 25.0 (IBM, USA) was used for statistical analysis. Normal distribution of the data was tested by using Q-Q Plot, Shapiro-Wilk and histogram analysis and it was found that the data were not normally distributed. Non-parametric tests were used to test the differences between/among groups and the correlation between variables. The data were collected by using the International Physical Activity Assessment Questionnaire to determine the physical activity levels of the participants; the Self-Handicapping Scale which was developed by Jones and Rhodewalt and adapted into Turkish by Akın (2012) to determine self-handicapping levels, and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale which was developed by Rosenberg and the Turkish validity-reliability study conducted by Tukuş (2010) to determine self-esteem levels. As a result, it was determined that the physical activity level of the firefighters was at medium and low levels and that the physical activity level had a positive correlation with self-esteem and a low negative correlation with selfhandicapping. To increase the physical activity, it is recommended that the physical activity levels of firefighters be monitored periodically by the administration and that periodic monitoring should be made to increase physical fitness levels via promoting the physical activity levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Demokratik rejimlerin temel özelliklerinden biri çoğulculuktur ve bu ilkenin gereğini yerine getirebilmenin yolu da genel oy hakkının olduğu seçimlerle mümkündür. Bu bağlamda siyaset kurumunun toplumun her kesiminden seçmenlerle kurduğu ilişkide onları yanına çekme ve desteklerini kazanabilme adına kullanabileceği enstrümanlar ve söylemler öne çıkar. Seçme hakkına sahip yurttaşlara ulaşabilmenin en etkili ve rasyonel yollarından biri son yıllarda geleneksel medyanın yanında sosyal medyayı da kullanmaktan geçmektedir. Özellikle eski adı Twitter olan X sosyal ağı dünyanın her yerinde siyasal seçimlerde seçmene ulaşabilmenin başlıca yollarından biri haline gelmiştir. Bu çalışmada da Türk siyasal hayatında gerek sosyo-ekonomik açıdan gerekse kültürel ve tarihi önemi nedeniyle sonuçları çok merak edilen İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanlığı seçimleri siyasal değerler açısından X sosyal ağı üzerinden analiz edilmiştir. 2019 yılındaki yerel seçimlerin çok çekişmeli geçmesi ve İstanbul seçimlerinin tekrarlanmasına karşın mevcut Belediye Başkanı Ekrem İmamoğlu’nun zaferi ve 31 Mart 2024 tarihindeki seçimlerde yeniden aday olması bu siyasi yarışı daha da heyecanlı hale getirmiştir. 2024 seçimlerinde Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi’nin adayı İmamoğlu’nun karşısına Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, iddialı bir biçimde eski bakanlarından Murat Kurum ile çıkmış ve seçimi kaybetmiştir. Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi’nde en çok sandalyeye sahip ve genel başkanı mevcut Cumhurbaşkanı olan Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi’nin diğer büyükşehirlerle beraber İstanbul’da da kaybetmesi siyaset arenasını oldukça hareketlendirmiş ve muhalefette gelecekte yakalanabilecek başarılara ilişkin büyük bir umut yaratmıştır. Bu araştırmada, böylesine önemli hale gelen ve sonuçları itibariyle büyük yankı uyandıran 31 Mart 2024 İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediye Başkanlığı seçimlerinde söz konusu iki adayın, seçmenlerin oy verme davranışlarında büyük bir etkiye sahip olan siyasal değerlere nasıl ve ne ölçüde seslendikleri X sosyal ağındaki paylaşımları kapsamında Schwartz’ın siyasal değer ölçeği kullanılarak içerik analizi yöntemiyle çözümlenmiştir. Politik yarışın iki aktörünün en çok; başarı, kendi amaçlarını belirleme, sorumluluk, kamusal imajı korumak ve sosyal güç değerlerine seslendikleri görülmüştür. Analiz neticesinde adayların, sosyal güç olarak seçmeni önemsediklerini vurguladıkları, geçmişteki başarılarından yola çıkarak “olumlu” kamusal imajlarından hareketle kendi amaçlarını ortaya koydukları ve biz kaybedersek olacaklardan siz mesul olursunuz şeklindeki söylemleriyle korku çekiciliği unsurlarını kullanarak sorumluluk değerine atıfta bulundukları saptanmıştır.

This article examines and explains the problems encountered and strategies employed by the street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) used during COVID-19 Pandemic response efforts in Türkiye. To this end, the authors adopted Michael Lipsky's street-level bureaucrat concept to explain the conditions and challenges faced by various Turkish street-level bureaucrats (e.g., doctors, nurses, security personnel, and teachers) during the COVID-19 Pandemic response efforts. The article ends with discussing and categorizing strategies used by the Turkish SLBs and directions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The administration managing public services and activities is generally organized according to two main systems. These systems are centralisation and decentralisation, or local administrations. It is stated in the Constitution of the Turkish Republic that the establishment and duties of the administration will be based on the principles of central management and local management. Generally, centralisation is the provision of some public services and activities from a single point, from the state centre. Local administration is the provision of some public services and activities by public legal entities outside the general administrative hierarchy, organised outside the state. The administration of Türkiye is separated into two as general administration or centralisation, and local administrative authorities. The central administration is separated into two as capital organization and provincial organisation. The local administrative authorities are also separated into two as the management bodies directed towards the locality and those directed towards the service. The management bodies directed towards the locality are stated in the Constitution (provincial administration) in the form of municpality and village, and it is stated that their decision-making bodies will be formed through election by legally proscribed voters. The municipal bodies listed among local administrations in the Constitution are stated as the city council, the municipal council and the mayor in the Municipality Law no. 5393. Members of the city council and the mayor are selected through direct election by the voters. The municipal council is a mixed committee formed of members elected by the city council from among its own members and senior municipal managers appointed by the mayor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Gelişen toplum hayatı ve değişen iletişim teknolojileri belediyeler ve sınırları içerisinde yaşayan vatandaşlar arasındaki iletişimin şeklinin değişmesine sebep olmuştur. Yeni iletişim yöntemleri ile birlikte belediyeler yeniden seçilmek ve hedef kitlesine iyi gözükmek amacıyla asli görevlerinin yanı sıra sosyal sorumluluk projelerine önem vermeye başlamışlardır. Çalışmanın amacı; yerel yönetim birimi olan belediyelerin sosyal sorumluluk faaliyetlerini yürütürken kullandıkları dijital iletişim yöntemlerini saptamak, kullanılan görselde verilen mesajı tespit etmek, kampanya yapılmadan önceki ve sonrasındaki verileri karşılaştırarak kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk kampanyalarının toplumu yönlendirme konusundaki etkisini ölçen veriler ortaya koymaktır. Bu kapsamda İnegöl Belediyesi’nin kullandığı dijital kanallar Kasım 2022’den Haziran 2023’e kadar 7 aylık süre ile incelenmiş tespit edilen geri dönüşüm kampanyaları içerik analizi yöntemi ile analiz edilmiştir. Daha sonra özel dönüşüm malzemelerinin kampanya öncesi, kampanya dönemi ve sonrasındaki toplanma verileri karşılaştırılarak nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden sosyal etki analizi yapılmıştır. Yapılan literatür taramasında belediyelerin gerçekleştirdiği kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk kampanyalarında sosyal etki ölçümü yapan çalışmaya rastlanmamıştır. Bu sebeple yapılan çalışma literatüre katkı sağlaması açısından önemlidir. Çalışma sonunda İnegöl Belediyesi’nin dijital kanallar aracılığı ile kurumsal sosyal sorumluluk projeleri gerçekleştirdiği, günlerce hatta aylarca toplanamayan geri dönüşüm miktarının birkaç günlük kampanya ile toplandığı, kampanya sonrasında geri dönüşüm bilincinin oluştuğu bu sebeple özel dönüşüm atıklarının toplanmaya devam ettiği verileri elde edilmiştir.

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Neoliberal transformation has led to the delivery of services, which were originally provided by the public, to be gradually rendered through the private sector. The state's effectiveness in providing public services in the welfare state era has changed in conjunction with the neoliberal era. Public services have started to be provided with the understanding of "limited state, unlimited market" and the areas where the state has pulled out have gradually become the subject of market relations. Public services, which have become the subject of market relations, made an impact on the urban area, too. Local public services provided by the local administrations have increasingly become the subject of privatization policies. Privatization practices show their impact on the provision of local public services under the duty and responsibility of the municipalities, and local public services, which the municipalities are responsible for are gradually provided by the private sector. However, the proliferation of the provision of local public services through the private sector brings out negative impacts on the citizens. In the study, the impact on citizens of the urban public transportation service, which is one of the local public services, provided by the private sector as a result of the increase in local public services being subject to market relations after the neoliberal transformation, was analyzed with a descriptive and interpretive approach, from qualitative research methods, in the case of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality. In this regard, today's aspect of the impact of services provided through the private sector on the citizens was assessed over the sample of "private-public bus" management, which started to be in service in Ankara Metropolitan Municipality during the years when neoliberal transformation had its impact on Turkey, and it was concluded that this impact continues to deepen today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the February’s earthquakes in Turkey, although it is located in the disaster area, in the Erzin district of Hatay, no destruction and no death took place. The mayor of Erzin attracted all attention by stating that he did not allow any illegal buildings in the city. It has been observed that earthquakes of the same magnitude cause different levels of damage in different residential areas. The main purpose is to investigate the possible effects of municipalities on the Urban damage, and thus to reveal the roles of municipalities in the formation of an earthquake-resilience city. In order to measure the effects of municipalities in Erzin, it has been revealed how much physical, economic, social, legal, administrative and political risk factors affecting the urban damage level are considered in city plans and decisions affecting the development of the city. Local actors and experts in Erzin were interviewed and these interviews were analysed by comparing them with the development of the city, urban plans, and risk factors. It has been concluded that municipalities do not take risk factors into account sufficiently and that their impact on creating earthquakeresilience cities is parallel to the intensity and strength of localsocial demands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Belediyelere daha etkin ve verimli bir işlev kazandırmak gerekçesiyle yapılan reformların başında, iktisadi bir kuram olan ölçek ekonomileri yer almaktadır. Nüfus veya coğrafi alan açısından küçük ölçekli olarak değerlendirilen yerel yönetim birimlerinin mali yetersizlikleri ve diğer taraftan kaynak israfının önlenmesi, yerel yönetim birimlerindeki parçalı yapının ortadan kaldırılarak etkinlik, verimlilik ve bütünlüğün elde edilmesi ihtiyacı doğduğu düşünülmektedir. Bu bağlamda özellikle yerel kamu hizmetlerinin daha ekonomik bir şekilde sunulması adına ölçek kuramı kamu yönetimine entegre edilmeye çalışılmaktadır. Bunun sonucunda etkinlik ve verimlilik kavramlarının yanında hiç şüphesiz ki katılım ve demokrasi yönünden de ölçek ekonomileri kuramının yerel kamu hizmetlerinin sunumunda fayda sağlayıp sağlamadığı tartışmalı bir konu olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Bu çalışmada, yapılan literatür taraması neticesinde etkinlik-verimlilik ve demokrasi-katılım kavramları kısaca açıklanarak ölçek ekonomisi ile ilişkilerinin pozitif ve negatif açıdan değerlendirilip ortaya koyulması amaçlanmıştır. Bu kapsamda belediyelerde yapılan bu reformdan sonra birçok çalışmanın ve tartışmanın gündeme geldiği bunların değerlendirilmesi neticesinde ölçeğin genişlemesinin etkinlik ve verimlilik açısından belli bir noktaya kadar pozitif etkilerinin olabileceği fakat bu maliyet tasarrufları beklentisinin her durumda karşılığı olmadığı, katılım ve demokrasi açısından ise genel olarak negatif etkilerinin olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmaktadır.

Municipalities, one of the most important elements of local governments in Türkiye, are among the leading organizations that conduct intensive educational activities, apart from institutions whose main function is education, such as the Ministry of National Education and higher education institutions. Local educations organized by municipalities and mostly aimed at helping the personal, social, and professional development of the local people appeal to a very wide audience of millions varying in age, education status, social status, disability status, and more. Considering its sphere of influence, it is thought that local education services conducted by municipalities assume an important role within the Turkish education system. Based on this assumption, the City Institute Project was initiated in collaboration with Anadolu University and the Tepebaşı Municipality of Eskişehir. Within the scope of the project, the structure of educational services carried out by local governments, its place in national education policies, and its sphere of influence were first investigated. In line with the findings obtained, 10 new courses were prepared based on a teaching model designed to support and improve local educational services with distance education. The prepared courses were made available to the masses via the Tepebaşı City Institute Lifelong Learning Portal, which was developed from scratch for the needs of the project and were evaluated according to the opinions of the students. In summary, this study examined the role and impact of local educational services within the scope of national education policies, based on the findings and results obtained from the Tepebaşı City Institute Project. Additionally, experiences related to how distance education theory could be utilized to improve local educational services were shared.

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ÖZ: Belediyeler tarafından yerine getirilen kamu hizmetlerini Kamu Denetçiliği Kurumu (KDK) kararlarını referans alarak iyi yönetim ilkeleri çerçevesinde incelemeyi amaçlayan bu çalışma, üç bölüm olarak kurgulanmıştır. Belediyelerin Anayasa ve kanunlar ile belirlenen faaliyetlerinin kamusal hizmet olduğunu açıklayan birinci bölümden sonra dünyada ve Türkiye’de iyi yönetim ilkelerinin ne ifade ettiği açıklanmıştır. Son bölümde nitel analize yer verilmiştir. 2019-2023 yıllarını kapsayan çalışmada, KDK tarafından belediye hizmetleri ile ilgili verilen toplamda 362 karar Maxqda Analytics Pro 2022 isimli nitel veri analiz programı ile incelenmiştir. Vatandaşların, en fazla vergi/ödeme işlemleri, yapı kayıt/ruhsat, su, imar, yol ve altyapı gibi konularda KDK’ya başvuru yaptığı görülmüştür. Bu başvurulara karşı verilen kararlarda idarelerin genel olarak iyi yönetim ilkelerine uyma oranının uymama oranından yüksek olduğu ortaya çıkmıştır. Bununla birlikte idarelerin; “idarelerin makul sürede karar verme”, “hesap verilebilirlik”, “şeffaflık”, “kararın geciktirilmeksizin bildirilmesi”, “kararın gerekçeli olması” ve “kanunlara uygunluk” ilkelerine büyük oranda uyduğu saptanmıştır. İdarelerin en zayıf olduğu ilke ise “karara karşı başvuru yolları ve sürelerinin gösterilmesi” ilkesidir. Dürüstlük, nezaket, haklı beklentiye uygunluk gibi hukuki dayanağı olmayan iyi yönetim değerlerine uyulmadığı tespit edilmiştir. ABSTRACT: This study, structured into three sections, aims to examine municipal public services within the framework of good governance principles based on the decisions of the Ombudsman Institution (KDKs). After the first section explaining the activities of municipalities, as defined by the Constitution and laws and constitute public services, the meaning of good governance principles in the World and in Türkiye are explained. The final section includes a qualitative analysis. In this study, covering the years 2019-2023, a total of 362 decisions related to municipal services issued by the KDK were analyzed using the qualitative data analysis program called Maxqda Analytics Pro 2022. It has been observed that citizens primarily apply to the KDK regarding tax/payments, building registration/licenses, water, urban planning, roads, and infrastructure, among other subjects. It has been revealed that the overall compliance rate of administrations with good governance principles is higher than the non-compliance rate in the decisions issued based on these appeals. Additionally, administrations have largely adhered to principles such as "timely decision-making," "accountability," "transparency," "prompt notification of decisions," "reasoned decisions," and "compliance with laws." The weakest principle observed among administrations is the principle of "indication of avenues and deadlines for appeal against decisions." It has been determined that non-legally based values of good governance, such as honesty, courtesy, and adherence to justified expectations, are not followed.

The Ministry of Health is the most important actor taking responsibility for the delivery of health services in Turkey. In addition, local governments also have important responsibilities arising from the legislation in the provision of health services. The main purpose of the study is to determine the role of local governments in the provision of health services and to evaluate the satisfaction levels of individuals for the health services provided by municipalities. The research universe consists of all individuals over the age of 18 living in the city centers of Antalya, Isparta and Burdur. Quota sampling is chosen as the sampling method, and 615 questionnaires are analyzed within the scope of the research. As a data collection tool in the study, the questionnaire "On Determining the Views of Individuals on Health Services Provided by Municipalities" developed by the researchers is used. As a result of the research, when the satisfaction levels of individuals from the health services provided by the municipalities are compared in terms of the Western Mediterranean provinces, the ranking of Antalya, Burdur and Isparta is reached. In the light of the findings, it is suggested that studies should be carried out in cooperation with the central government in a way to increase the perception and knowledge level of individuals regarding the services provided by the municipalities and the satisfaction level of the individuals regarding the health services provided by the municipalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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COVID-19 olarak bilinen pandemi ile, Mart 2020 tarihinden itibaren tüm dünya mücadele etmektedir. Covid-19 pandemisinin sosyal, siyasal, ekonomik ve psikolojik açıdan bireylere yansımaları da kaçınılmaz olmaktadır. Pandeminin tüm boyutları ile mücadelesi hükümetler, yerel yönetimler ve sivil toplum kuruluşları işbirliğiyle sürdürülmektedir. Dünya nüfusunun dağılımına bakıldığında çoğunluğun kentlerde yaşadığı görülmektedir. Bu yüzden kentsel alanda vatandaşlarla iç içe olan yerel yönetimlerin de bu salgınla mücadelede önemi artmaktadır. Küresel ölçekteki bu soruna en hızlı en pratik çözümlerin yerel yönetimler tarafından gerçekleştirilmesi beklenmektedir. Yerel yönetim denildiğinde akla ilk gelen nüfusun büyük bir kısmını barındıran belediyeler olmaktadır.Bu çalışmada cevabı aranan başlıca soru; Dünyada ve Türkiye’de büyükşehir belediyelerinin salgınla mücadele sürecinde hangi hizmetlerle destek verdikleri olmuştur. Çalışmanın konusu, COVID-19’un etkisinde kalan ülkelerdeki ve Türkiye’de bulunan 30 büyükşehir belediyesinin yapmış olduğu hizmetlerdir. Bu doğrultuda çalışmanın amacı, tüm dünyada etkisi hala devam eden salgınla mücadelede belediyeler tarafından sunulan hizmetlerin araştırılması ve belediyelerin öneminin tartışılmasıdır.Betimletici metodun uygulandığı çalışmada ulaşılan başlıca sonuç, merkezi idarenin yetişemediği alanlarda hızlı etki gösteren yerel yönetimlerin o boşluğu doldurduğudur. Türkiye’de belediyeler tarafından maske üretiminden, sosyal yardımlara, dijital araçlarla evde sosyal-kültürel faaliyetlere kadar yaratıcı hizmetlerin sunulduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Türkiye coğrafi, iklimsel ve jeolojik yapısı gereği deprem, sel, toprak kayması gibi beklenilmeyen ve yaşanma riski her zaman var olan doğal afetlere sık maruz kalan ülkelerden biridir. Türkiye’nin afetlere açık konumu, afet yönetimini zorunlu kılmaktadır. Bu noktada belediyeler sorumluluk almakta; doğal afetlerden korunmak, zararlarını azaltmak amacıyla yerel halkın ihtiyaçlarını ve kentin özelliklerini dikkate alarak toplumun tüm kesimine ulaşacak afet ve acil durum planları yapmayı amaç edinmektedir. Günümüz dijital çağda yapılan afet ve acil durum planlarının teknolojik ortamlara entegre edilmesi belediyelerin faaliyetlerinin verimliliği ve yerel halkın erişim kolaylığı açısından önem arz etmektedir. Bu bağlamda çalışmada büyükşehir belediyelerinin web sitelerinde afet hizmetlerine yer verilip verilmediğinin ve yerel halkın afetlerle ilgili bilgilere, planlara, belirlenen toplanma alanlarına ulaşabilirliğinin değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Çalışma kapsamında Türkiye’de faaliyet gösteren 30 Büyükşehir Belediyesi’nin web sitesi incelenmiş, afet yönetimi ve afet hizmetleri kategorilerinin varlığı analiz edilmiştir. Yapılan içerik analizi ile elde edilen bulguların, büyükşehir belediyelerinin web sitelerini afete duyarlı şekilde tasarlamalarına ışık tutması umulmaktadır.

Municipalities are the most authorized local government administrations in almost every country. Therefore, they have a responsibility to serve the citizens at the highest level. Total Quality Management is one of the approaches that will help this. The aim of this study is to present concretely what needs to be done to establish Total Quality Management in municipalities. For this, the Analytic Hierarchy Process method was used. According to this method, alternatives are given to experts and they are asked to rank them to achieve the goal. As a result, the ranking was made by the experts who participated in the research as follows; training of municipal top executives, public demand, establishment of Total Quality Management Directorate in municipalities, development of municipal legislation, supervision of municipalities by the General Directorate of local administrations.

The modernization initiatives initiated in institutions and organizations with the proclamation of the Republic were also reflected in the city administrations. The municipal administration, which was first established in the Ottoman Empire, continued to exist during the Republican period. Intense population migration from rural to urban areas in 1950 revealed new regulations regarding municipalities. In the historical process, municipalities have also had to struggle with new problems that have emerged. The new agenda of today's municipal governments is climate change and air pollution. Turkey takes an active role in the United Nations' processes of combating climate change and air pollution. Turkey has signed the Paris Agreement. The Agreement assigns significant roles in climate change-focused issues to urban settlements. In this context, metropolitan municipalities have taken responsibility for combating climate change and air pollution. The scope of the study is primarily to draw the general framework of the city's policies to combat climate change and air pollution. Then, specific to Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, it is aimed to examine the reduction, harmonization and waste targets of the municipality budget, covering the years 2018-2022, related to environmental protection and climate change (ÇKİD), and the budget allocated to these targets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Municipalities, as the institutions closest to the public with their services, undertake very important duties and responsibilities. Many details related to daily life, from urban infrastructure to environmental problems, from social services to cemeteries and burial procedures, are among these duties and responsibilities. It is important for everyone to benefit equally from the services offered by municipalities in terms of the proper functioning of democracy and participation. However, disabled citizens do not have the opportunity to benefit from these services sufficiently because they are in a disadvantaged position. In terms of participation in social life and access to social needs, municipalities' continued services for disabled people can be stated as one of the most important indicators of contemporary municipality. This study, in which the role and importance of the services provided by municipalities in the social participation of disabled individuals is discussed within the framework of various examples, aims to contribute to the studies on services for disabled individuals. This study reveals that accessibility means a great deal to individuals with disabilities as city residents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Local governments are the points where citizens first come into contact with the state. For this reason, municipal governments that win local governments and display a successful administration can increase the public's belief in them so that the political parties can in turn be successful in the country's administration. One of the most important resources for local governments to be successful and provide better service to the public is their human capital. Better and more accurate management of human resources depends on the mayor authorized by the people and elected for 5 years, as well as the mayor's and the administration office's correct and proper decisions. In the present study, the reasons for the short tenure of the managers appointed in a metropolitan municipality between 2019 and 2022 were investigated and 12 attributes were determined as a result of extensive literature research. With the multiple attribute decision-making approach named DEMATEL, the influences between these 12 attributes were revealed and the significance of each attribute was calculated. According to the findings, several strategic leadership decision suggestions are made on the appointment of managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, municipalities are key institutions about ensuring local development. In addition, municipalities play a leading role in the institutionalization of democracy, closest to the public, where the central government can share its power and authority. The strategic plans of the municipalities are the documents that explain their current institutional status and contain the policies, goals and objectives for the coming years. In this study, the issue of women has been sought in the strategic plans of the municipalities. In this respect, Istanbul Ankara and Izmir Metropolitan Municipalities, which have the most populous population in Turkey, are included in the scope of the study. Within the scope of the study, the latest 2020-2024 strategic plans and 2021 activity reports prepared by the relevant municipalities will be examined by focusing on the issue of women. In the study, document analysis technique, one of the qualitative analysis techniques has been used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The importance of environmental protection and control services, which have a significant place among municipal services, is gradually increasing today. Municipalities, which are among the administrations responsible for meeting local and common needs, constitute the administration of the locality where environmental problems are most intense. On the other hand, the fact that environmental problems observed in heavily industrialized and urbanized areas are intense causes these administrations to use more financial resources in fulfilling their environmental protection and control duties. The share and rate of environmental protection and control service expenditures in the budget expenditures of district municipalities within the municipal boundaries of the metropolitan municipalities, which are local administrative organizations, is the subject of our study. In this study, the ratio of environmental protection service expenditures, environmental protection, and control directorate expenditures, and environmental protection services and environmental protection and control directorate expenditures within the budget expenditures of İzmir-Selçuk District Municipality, according to the functional classification, which is a form of analytical budget classification, within the years 2014-2019 is analyzed by evaluating their ratio to the total municipality expenditures,. Along with literature and resource review, the study is an evaluation of the results of the ratio of the environmental protection expenditures and the expenditures of the environmental protection and control directorate, which are among the finalized budget items of the Selçuk District Municipality, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List within the borders of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, to the total budget figures between the years 2014-2019.

Acting in partnership with the city's stakeholders in combating all the problems that may arise in a city in physical, environmental, social and economic terms can make the city more resilient and transform it into a city where all stakeholders can feel more secure. This is possible first and foremost through the adoption of a participatory model in municipalities and a management approach that attaches importance to stakeholder participation. This study focuses on the current state of the participation relationship between municipalities and NGOs, which are important stakeholders of municipalities in resilient city design. The aim of the study is to evaluate the participation relationship between municipalities and NGOs in Turkey. The quantitative method was adopted in the study. In this context, a total of 800 data were collected for the NGO sample and 552 data were collected for the municipality sample. The most important finding of the study is that the stakeholder relationship between municipalities and NGOs in Turkey is weak in terms of participation in decision-making processes and that participation should be given importance in resilient urban design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dialogical accountability is a new field of study among accounting disciplines over the past two decades. Recognizing the controversial nature of accounting information and the importance of responding to a wider range of stakeholders involves rethinking the roles of reporting, including calls for the emergence of new processes that embrace pluralism. At the forefront of the new public governance is involving citizens in order to enhance the legitimacy of government actions and enhance democratic governance through dialogic accountability. The aim of this study is to explain the importance of popular financial reports in dialogic accountability and to propose a popular financial reporting that can provide transparency of the activity results of municipalities, understandability by citizens, and democratization of the public administration process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the local administrators of Rosario in Argentina declared it a Human Rights City (HRC) in 1997, administrators of many other cities around the world also joined this movement. The HRC declaration entailed a commitment to leveraging local policies to localize universal human rights norms, while also establishing participatory mechanisms that include vulnerable groups. The capability approach provides a framework for evaluating the outcomes of these practices, as it focuses on the obstacles that prevent individuals from realizing their own potential. The objective of this article is to assess HRC practices during the Covid-19 pandemic in relation to individual freedoms and capabilities. Therefore, the practices of Maltepe and Zeytinburnu municipalities, which participated in the Turkey HRC Project, were compared with the practices of Büyükçekmece and Üsküdar municipalities in terms of the capabilities of their respective city residents. The study involved a sample of 5,022 people from these municipalities. The results revealed that residents of project-participant municipalities were statistically more likely to apply for municipal support (p=0.005), but there was no significant difference between municipalities with and without project participants regarding receiving municipal support, exposure to discrimination, awareness of municipal activities, and adequacy of activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The wave of rapid change and transformation in the field of information and communication technologies has brought mobile technologies to the fore as never before. Mobile devices with a higher ownership rate compared to other technological devices; has opened new communication channels such as call centers, instant messaging applications and mobile applications between citizens and local governments, especially in the post-millennium era. Considering the access and usage rates on a global scale, mobile technologies offer a serious opportunity to reach a large number of citizens/customers. M-State and M-Municipality works, which have some advantages such as better service delivery at lower costs in the public sector, providing institutional capacity within the framework of efficiency, accountability, transparency, sensitivity, responsiveness and feedback principles, are causing a new wave of democratization today. With the study, it is aimed to determine the usage style and level of mobile technologies of metropolitan municipalities, which are considered to be relatively strong in institutional and financial terms. In this context, instant messaging applications, mobile services offered through call centers and mobile applications developed in a wide variety of topics that have been conducted by Metropolitan municipalities in Türkiye as an M-state or M-municipality tool are examined by web harvesting method. As a result, it is determined that mobile applications and call center services are actively used by these metropolitan municipalities, but instant messaging programs (WhatsApp and Telegram) are not used very actively and efficiently in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Türkiye kültürel mirası açısından zengin bir ülkedir. Türkiye’nin UNESCO Dünya Mirası Listesi'nde 18, geçici listesinde 83 tane miras bulunmaktadır. Bu evrensel değerlere sahip olmak aynı zamanda herkes adına koruma sorumluluğunu da üstlenmektir. Kültürel miraslarımızın korunması ve evrensel boyutta tanıtılması gerekmektedir. Mirasa dair farkındalık kullanıcılar, ziyaretçiler ve yerel yönetimlerden başlayarak en üst düzeye kadar herkes tarafından oluşturulmalıdır. Bu da miras yönetim planlamalarının yapılmasıyla mümkündür. Bu çalışmada UNESCO Dünya Mirası Geçici Listesi'nde bulunan mirasların yönetimlerinden sorumlu belediyelerin, UNESCO ve kültürel miras farkındalığının stratejik plan üzerinden değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Geçici listede bulunan 77 miras toplam 104 adet belediyenin sınırları içinde yer almaktadır. Bu miraslara sahip 42 belediyenin stratejik planına ulaşılamamış ve önceki dönemlere ait 8 stratejik plan kapsam dışında tutularak 2020-2024 dönemine ait 54 adet plan çalışma kapsamında incelenmiştir. Amaçlı örneklem yöntemiyle seçilen stratejik planlar içerik analizi yöntemi kullanılarak incelenmiştir. Belirlenen dört başlık içinde “kültür”,” tarih”, “UNESCO”, “turizm” ve “koruma” anahtar kelimeleriyle miras adları analiz edilmiştir. İncelenen belediyelerin stratejik planlarında bu miraslara yönelik farkındalığ yeterince olmadığı ve gelecek stratejileri arasında gerekli yeri almadığı tespit edilmiştir.

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With new public administration approaches, staff management has given its place to the understanding of human resources management and since the beginning of the 2000s, changes have begun in municipalities with the reform of local governments. With the transition to human resources administration, the quality of the service municipalities offer, the cost of the services, and their future plans have entered into a change process. Within this process, given place to practices such as performance measurement, time management, and employee empowerment that increase the capacity of the human resources and enable them to respond effectively to citizens' demands. In-service training holds a crucial position in the strict and non-innovative institutional structure for the realization of this transformation. Responding to the expectations of citizens and providing effective and efficient service is possible with in-service training. The aim of this study is to reveal that in-service training should be given significance in order to create a powerful human resource in municipalities. In the study, the literature review was conducted, human resources administration, employee empowerment, negative situations we face in employee empowerment, in-service training were mentioned. In order to enforce human resources, the data of 80 metropolitan, provincial and county municipalities in Turkey was analyzed. The results of the research reveal that training should be continuous and in accordance with the needs to strengthen human resources, and that training should be positioned as a priority in order to empower the staff as much as possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]