Does policy style shift when the political regime changes? Insights from Turkey
In: Contemporary politics, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 144-166
ISSN: 1469-3631
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In: Contemporary politics, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 144-166
ISSN: 1469-3631
In: Journal of European integration: Revue d'intégration européenne, Band 43, Heft 7, S. 841-857
ISSN: 1477-2280
In: Journal of European integration, Band 43, Heft 7, S. 841-857
ISSN: 0703-6337
World Affairs Online
In: Regional studies: official journal of the Regional Studies Association, Band 52, Heft 9, S. 1181-1190
ISSN: 1360-0591
This article examines the functioning of Regional Development Agencies (DAs) in Turkey from a policy instruments approach with a view to uncovering their intended and unintended consequences for regional governance. The policy instruments approach challenges the functionalist view that instruments are merely technical and neutral devices for realizing policy aims in the most effective way. Instead, the article shows that as policy instruments, the DAs are highly political with important political consequences. The article is based on original data collected and generated from an extensive review of official documents and reports and semi-structured interviews with local stakeholders in six different regions conducted between 2011 and 2014. On the basis of the findings, the article argues that the DAs in Turkey lack the capacity to act as focal points for empowerment of sub-national actors and to foster intra-regional networks between public and private sectors and civil society. Findings show that there is lack of collaboration both between and among different groups of local and those of central actors within the decision-making and implementation stages of the policy cycle and that local actors perceive the DAs as devices for accomplishing their own objectives rather than as partnerships for producing new possibilities of development. These findings indicate that the DAs are far from mobilizing endogenous growth capacities, greatly hindering them from becoming engines of development in their regions. Overall, the DAs are largely failing to manage multiscalar relations of governance for the purpose of promoting regional development. ; Publisher's Version
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In: Policy & politics, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 257-273
ISSN: 1470-8442
In: Policy & politics: advancing knowledge in public and social policy, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 257-274
ISSN: 0305-5736
In: South European society & politics, S. 1-24
ISSN: 1743-9612
In: South European society & politics, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 237-257
ISSN: 1743-9612
In: South European society & politics, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 237-257
ISSN: 1360-8746
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 63, Heft 7, S. 1195-1222
ISSN: 0966-8136
World Affairs Online
In: Europe Asia studies, Band 63, Heft 7, S. 1195-1222
ISSN: 1465-3427
In: South European society & politics, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 259-280
ISSN: 1743-9612
In: South European society & politics, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 281-281
ISSN: 1743-9612