Policy Analysis in Turkey

“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

Dr. Caner Bakir is Associate Professor of Political Science, with a special focus on International and Comparative Political Economy, and Public Policy and Administration at Koc University, Istanbul. He is co-director of Centre for Globalisation, Peace and Democratic Governance.

Dr. Gunes Ertan is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Koç University. She received her Ph.D. from Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at University of Pittsburgh in 2013 with a specialization on Public Policy.

Introduction: Pushing the pendulum from politics to policy: the state of policy analysis in Turkey - Caner Bakir and Güneş 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 Akdoğan, Göktuğ Morçöl, Gökhan Orhan and Mete Yıldız;

Boomerang effect: The bottleneck of public policy analysis in Turkey ~ Akif Argun Akdoğan;

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 ~ Uğur Sadioğlu;

Territorial policy-making and administrative reform in Turkey ~ Can Umut Çiner;

Policy-making at local level: An analysis of Turkish municipalities ~ Ulaş 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 Bölükbaşı, 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 ~ Güneş Ertan;

Part V: Academic, bureaucratic and advocacy-based policy analysis;

Policy analysis in the Central Bank of Turkey ~ Caner Bakır and Mehmet Kerem Çoban;

Think tanks and policy analysis in Turkey ~ Göktuğ Morçöl, Özer Köseoğlu, Zahid Sobacı and Ömer Faruk Koktaş;

Public policy and media in Turkey ~ Başak Yavcan and Hakan Övünç Ongur;

Public policy education in Turkey ~ Mete Yıldız and Cenay Babaoğlu.