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Book SynopsisThis volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the state of policy analysis in Turkey for an international audience. It will be a valuable resource for those studying policy analysis within Turkey and as a comparison with other volumes in the International Library of Policy Analysis Series.
Trade Review“This book will be an important resource for scholars and lecturers of public policy in Turkey and a great resource to compare with policy analysis in the US, Canada and UK primarily.” Naim Kapucu, Ph.D., Professor & Director, School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pushing the pendulum from politics to policy: the state of policy analysis in Turkey - Caner Bakir and Güne? Ertan; Part I: Historical roots, styles and methods of policy analysis in Turkey; The past, present, and future of policy analysis in Turkey ~ Akif Argun Akdo?an, Göktu? Morçöl, Gökhan Orhan and Mete Y?ld?z; Boomerang effect: The bottleneck of public policy analysis in Turkey ~ Akif Argun Akdo?an; Methods of policy analysis: The US and Turkish cases ~ Hüseyin Gül and Muhittin Acar; Part II: Policy analysis by governments; Policy analysis in Turkey’s central government: current practices and future challenges ~ U?ur Sadio?lu; Territorial policy-making and administrative reform in Turkey ~ Can Umut Çiner; Policy-making at local level: An analysis of Turkish municipalities ~ Ula? Bayraktar; Part III: Experts, international actors, and public opinion; Beyond developmentalism: The role of experts and expertise in Turkey’s environmental policy disputes ~ Gökhan Orhan; Europeanisation of policy-making in Turkey and its limits ~ H. Tolga Bölükba??, Ebru Ertugal and Saime Özçürümez; Public opinion and public policy in Turkey ~ Sedef Turper; Part IV: Parties and civil society-based policy analysis; Political parties and public policy in Turkey ~ Selem Erdem Aytaç; Policy analysis in civil society organisations ~ Güne? Ertan; Part V: Academic, bureaucratic and advocacy-based policy analysis; Policy analysis in the Central Bank of Turkey ~ Caner Bak?r and Mehmet Kerem Çoban; Think tanks and policy analysis in Turkey ~ Göktu? Morçöl, Özer Köseo?lu, Zahid Sobac? and Ömer Faruk Kokta?; Public policy and media in Turkey ~ Ba?ak Yavcan and Hakan Övünç Ongur; Public policy education in Turkey ~ Mete Y?ld?z and Cenay Babao?lu.
