Proceedings of the 13th International Academic Conference, Antibes

LOCAL ADMINISTRATION SYSTEMS AND LOCAL DEMOCRACY PERCEPTION

HAYRIYE SAGIR, HACER TUĞBA EROGLU

Abstract:

Institutions which are subunits of a government or regional administration and authorized as defining limited number of public policies in relatively small area and implicating these policies are defined as public institutions and local administrations. The existence reasons of local administrations enforce some services which will be presented to public not by the government centre but by the public entities which are not included in centralized administration hierarchy and in centralized management organizations. There are two types of the term’ decentralisation’ which are governmental decentralisation and political decentralisation. If the authority transferred by centralized management is limited with legislation and to a certain degree with jurisdiction it is Political decentralisation which is special to federal states, if the authorities transferred by centralized management is limited only with enforcement it is governmental decentralisation. The first target to be reached in democracies is to make the public have rights in administration. The prior purpose in countries which has the tradition of democratic administration is to include the public in each step of administration and decision making. Public’s participation in administration process and public’s having rights in administration are easy is local administrations. In this direction, this study’s main subject will be local administration systems and the relation of systems with democratic administration.

Keywords: Local Administration, Local Administration Systems, Local Democracy, Participation

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