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The use of internet and technology in the provision of public services and beyond this, the turning of public services and their deliveries to more efficient, efficient and quality way are among the pioneering principles of today's public administration approach. Such understanding in this direction has emerged with the New Public Management which entered the public administration as a new trend in the 1980s and aimed to adapt the principles of the private sector business approach based on efficiency and practicality to the public administration. The development of the understanding has been possible by the New Public Service approach, which criticized New Public Management and focused on the concepts of public service and public interest. Egovernment is the most widely used platform in recent years to provide the citizen this efficient, practical and public benefit based delivery in these two approaches. This platform enables citizens to receive a fast, high quality and uninterrupted service from the government, while providing the government significant gains and savings in terms of both efficiency and cost in bureaucratic transactions within and between institutions. E-government applications are provided via egovernment portal in Turkey since 2008. Citizens can easily access this platform through their computers and smart phones for seven days and twenty-four hours. Over the years, both the number and quality of public services provided through this platform have continuously increased. This study analyzes the 20 most used practices by citizens on the E-government platform. The analysis includes in which public service area these applications are, and in which ways they meet the needs of citizens. Within the framework of the findings to be reached in line with the analysis, an effort was made to develop a foresight about which public services the citizens would demand to receive easily on this platform in the future. In the conclusion of the study, a number of suggestions about the issues that public service provision should focus on in the future within the framework of this foresight are given.

This study methodologically examines the public policy analysis studies published in various prestigious journals (SSCI-indexed). In this context, in the study, 143 articles published in the mentioned journals between 2000-2019 were subjected to content analysis. The articles were coded and grouped into six main areas such as public administration policies, health policies, environmental policies, economic policies, education policies and information and communication policies. Together with the analysis, it was investigated which methods and data collection techniques were used to analyze the public policy analysis stud-ies in these six areas.

PART I: PUBLIC POLICY MAKING IN THE NEW AGE -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Citizen-Centered Public Policy Making -- Chapter 2. Different Approaches to Public Policy Making -- Chapter 3. Normative Public Policy, the "Public Value" and Value Conflicts -- Chapter 4. Rethinking the Role of Nudge in Public Policy -- Chapter 5. Civil Society and Public Policy in Turkey -- PART II: APPROACHES ON CITIZEN-CENTERED PUBLIC POLICY MAKING -- Chapter 6. Social Networks of/for Citizen Participation in Turkey -- Chapter 7. Digital Divide and Citizen Participation in Public Policy Making -- Chapter 8. Conceptual Complexities and Frameworks to Analyze Digital Transformation and Citizen-Centric E-Participation in Public Administration -- Chapter 9. Active Citizenship and Disadvantaged Groups: The Roma in Turkey -- Chapter 10. Women, Nationalism, And Political Participation in Turkey -- Chapter 11. Rising Expectations: How Digital Democracy Don't Mean More Participation for Vulnerable Groups -- Chapter 12. Challenges for Direct Citizen Participation in Public Policy making -- PART III: REFLECTIONS FROM VARIOUS POLICY FIELDS IN TURKEY -- Chapter 13. Citizen-Oriented Participation Mechanisms in Turkey: The Case of the Ministry of Interior -- Chapter 14. Citizen-Centered Public Policy Making Through Social Media in Local Governments: A Research on Twitter Accounts of Metropolitan Municipalities in Turkey -- Chapter 15. Citizen-Centric Smart City Practices of Local Governments During Covid-19: Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Case -- Chapter 16. Data Wars During COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey: Regulatory Science, Trust, Risk, and Citizen Science -- Chapter 17. Citizen-Centered Environmental Policy Making in Turkey: The Struggle of Unheard Voices -- Chapter 18. Housing Affordability in Turkey: How Big Is It and Who Are the Most Vulnerable? -- Chapter 19. Educational Policy Making in Turkey: Citizen-Centered or Window-Dressing? -- Chapter 20. Evaluation of Higher Education Policies in Turkey in the Context of Citizen-Centered Public Policies -- Chapter 21. Access vs. Quality Trade-Off: How Citizen-Centered Is the Public Policy Making in The Expansion of the Turkish Higher Education System? -- Chapter 22. People-Centered Health Policies in Turkey -- Chapter 23. Implementation of Citizen-Oriented Economic Policies -- Chapter 24. Citizen-Centered Public Security in Turkey: Policy and Practice.

Ülke sınırlarının ulusal güvenlik politikası açısından taşıdığı önem, son yıllarda giderek hızlanan küreselleşme süreci ile birlikte azalmaya başlamıştır. Küreselleşme ile birlikte dünyada, ülkelerin güç dağılım kanalları yeniden şekillenmiş, asimetrik güç ilişkileri ortaya çıkmış ve ulusal güvenlik ihtiyaçları yeniden tanımlanmıştır. Son yıllarda yaşanan teknolojik gelişmeler siber güvenlik kavramını ortaya çıkarmış ve siber güvenlik, ulusal güvenliğin önemli bir unsuru haline gelmiştir. İnternetin, ülkelerin sınırlarını aşan yapısı, internet ağlarının bireysel hizmetlerin ve amaçların ötesinde devletin kritik altyapılarında ve kamu hizmetlerinin yürütülmesinde kullanılması, gün geçtikçe gelişen e-devlet uygulamaları, siber güvenliğin ulusal güvenlik içerisindeki önemini daha da pekiştirmiştir. Bu bağlamda, çalışmada ABD, Rusya ve Çin'in siber güvenlik politikaları, özellikle bu üç ülkede yayınlanan resmi politika belgeleri temelinde incelenmekte ve karşılaştırmalı bir analiz yapılmaktadır. ; The importance of country borders within the national security policy has begun to diminish continuously with the acceleration of the globalization process in recent years. With globalization, the power distribution channels of the countries have been reshaped; asymmetrical power relations have emerged and the needs for national security of countries have been redefined. Technological developments in recent years have disclosed the concept of cyber security and cyber security has become an important element of the national security of countries. The structure of the Internet that exceeds the borders of countries, the use of internet networks in the critical infrastructures of the state and in the execution of public services beyond the individual services and objectives, and the increasing e-government applications have further reinforced the importance of cyber security in national security. In this context, the study comparatively examined the cyber security policies of the USA, Russia and China particularly on the basis of official policy documents published in these three countries and such an analysis is presented.

Hollanda 41.528 km2 yüz ölçümü ve 17,3 milyon nüfusu ile Avrupa'nın en küçük fakat yoğunluk olarak en yüksek ülkelerinden biridir. Ülke nüfusunun 404 bin 459'unu oluşturan Türkler, Hollanda'da yabancı kökenli nüfusu en fazla olan grubun başında gelmektedir. Ülkenin üniter bir devlet yapısına sahip olmasının yanı sıra yerel yönetimlerine oldukça fazla görev ve yetki vermesi, ülkenin yerel yönetim yapısını Türkiye karşılaştırması için dikkat çekici kılmaktadır. Türkiye'de yerel yönetimlerin özerkliği tartışmaları günümüzde de yoğun olarak devam etmektedir. Bu nedenle, hem üniter devlet yapısını koruyan hem de yerel yönetimlerine geniş yetki ve sorumluluklar veren Hollanda ile benzer özellikler gösteren Türkiye'yi genel hatlarıyla karşılaştırmak, iyi pratikleri görebilmek adına faydalı olacaktır. Bu çalışma açıklanan iki ülkenin yerel yönetimlerini ilgili literatür ve dokümanlar doğrultusunda analiz etmekte, yönetimlerdeki benzer ve farklı yönleri, iyi pratikleri belirleyerek kurumsallaşma kuramı bağlamında olası eşbiçimlilikleri tartışmaktadır. ; The Netherlands is one of the smallest but most densely populated countries in Europe, with a surface area of 41,528 km2 and a population of 17.3 million. The Turks, who constitute 404 thousand 459 of the country's population, are the first groups with the highest population of foreign origin in the Netherlands. Beside the country has a unitary state structure, its giving a large duties and powers to local governments makes it remarkable for a comparison with Turkey. The discussion of local government autonomy in Turkey continues to be trend even today. Therefore, it will be useful to compare Hollanda which protects the unitary state structure while it also gives large duties and power to its local governments and Turkey which has familiar charactheristics with it, in order to find the best practices. This study analyzes the local governments of the two countries in the light of the relevant literature and documents and identifies similar and different aspects of the administrations, best practices and discusses possible isomorphisms in the context of institutionalization theory.

Under the influence of globalization and the European Union membership accession process, important administrative reform initiatives have been taken in Turkey in the 2000s in the framework of economic, social, political, cultural and technological needs. In this process, central government agencies and administrations, public financial management, local governments and similar public organizations have undergone important transitions. The most important initiative taken to achieve regional governance is the establishment of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs). The present study performs a 10-year longitudinal analysis of RDAs in Turkey in the context of governance and local elites. The first phase of the study was conducted in 2010, and the second phase was conducted in 2019. The aim of the study is to evaluate whether RDAs have realized their potential in local democracy, sustainable development and decentralization, as well as to define the characteristics of policies to be pursued in line with further development of these agencies. Consequently, it has been observed that maintaining a centralized state tradition, along with institutional deficiencies, has transformed RDAs into an apparatus of the central government.

Despite the vast literature on public administration education (PAE), there is still a need for a broader perspective and exploration of its general characteristics, focal points, and objectives to create an overarching framework. Stemming from this motivation, this study establishes an investigative point of view that considers both the structural and functional dimensions of existing literature, embracing the big questions of PAE proposed by Denhardt, as a precise foundational base. By conducting a content analysis on 1401 program learning outcomes from 110 universities offering undergraduate public administration programs in Türkiye, the study provides national-scale qualitative evidence for the big questions. The prominent findings indicate that PAE prioritizes equipping graduates with practical skills beyond immediate job preparation in the functional axis, while it appears to overlook the theoretical gains in the structural axis. Findings on competencies make a supportive contribution to the scholarly discourse on PAE, emphasizing the crucial role of managerial and technical competencies for future roles. Remarkably, less visible but insightful final findings regarding values such as ethics, human rights, social justice, equality, and democracy have the potential to be inspiring in clarifying and realizing the PAE's meta-goal, whose definition and scope are not yet clear.