Onur Kulaç

Pamukkale University · Department of Political Science and Public Administration

This article examines and explains the problems encountered and strategies the street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) used during COVID-19 Pandemic response efforts in Türkiye. To this end, the authors adopted Michael Lipsky's street-level bureaucrat concept to explain the conditions and challenges faced by various Turkish street-level bureaucrats (e.g.,...

This study aimed to analyse the impact of digitalisation on good governance with respect to selected local public administrations during the COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020. The overriding assumption made is that agile values mediate the relationship between digitalisation and good governance on this level of public administration. Data wer...

The article deals with the issue of fiscal decentralization in relation to compliance with fiscal discipline at the municipal level. The article evaluates the situation of selected Czech and Turkish cities. In the case of Czech cities, so-called statutory cities were selected, which, due to their size and budget, have a certain independence from th...

COVID-19, a type of Coronavirus, has taken over the entire world and is threatening thousands of people's lives. Therefore, the World Health Organization (henceforth WHO) has announced that COVID-19 is now included in the pandemic diseases group. Governments around the world have adopted various policies to combat the pandemic. During this process,...

Political and economic developments in the 20th century affected the forms and preferences of public service delivery. In addition, the increasing demands and expectations of citizens, the development in information and communication technologies and, finally, international crises, and in particular, COVID-19 pandemic lead to differences on the ide...

Adaptation of environmental literacy awareness to the education system and reflection of interest and attitude towards the environment in behavior is a critical element in order to ensure sustainable development. Turkey's interest in the environment and sustainable development began to increase at the end of the 20th century. Unfortunately, the ref...

Avusturalya Ulusu, 1901 yılında kurulmuş bir ülke olarak Commonwealth (federal), eyalet ya da bölge ve yerel düzeyden oluşan üç hükümet düzeyine sahip bulunmaktadır. Ayrıca, ülkede üç yönetim kolunu parlamento, yürütme hükümeti ve yargı kolları oluşturmaktadır. Çalışma kapsamında, Avusturalya’nın siyasi ve idari yapısı hükümet sistemi ve üç yönetim...

Public administration is overwhelmingly crucial in providing citizens with the best accessible, affordable, effective, and efficient services. Governments need qualified human resources for satisfactory employment processes. Therefore, higher education institutions play a crucial role in supplying the education in the field of public administration...

Public policy analysis basically provides researchers and other relevant actors with comprehensive output to comprehend the effectiveness and the efficiency of the policies. Renewable energy sources are highly crucial especially for the maintenance of sustainable development. Therefore, most of the countries like Turkey, attempt and even struggle t...

There are numerous problems in societies all over the world that need to be addressed and sorted out by governments. To produce solutions to arising issues, official policy actors in countries mainly focus on the public policy-making process. Public policies are mostly developed by governing and administrative bodies of government (Shires, 2004: 35...

The study of public policies, which became especially important after the Second World War, is crucial and practical for public authorities, as well as students and researchers in this field. In order to equip students and public authorities with a fair amount of knowledge, many undergraduate programs were established after the war, mostly in Engli...

The defects in the application of 1950s' Green Revolution brought the discussion in 1962 Silent Spring about the negative consequences regarding sustainable environment, which in turn created a new notion in 1980s that needed further work. In Turkey, environmental problems were first discussed within the framework of the 3rd Five-Year Plan (1973-19...

Defined in the simplest and the most comprehensive framework, decision-making is the process of choosing between alternatives, and it is aff ected by various factors. Ethics, which is regarded as one of the signifi cant elements among these factors, infl uences the decision-making process at organisational and individual levels. Th e subjects of et...

Kamu politikası çözümlemesi ifadesinden her ne kadar meso ya da Türkiye’de genellikle makro ölçekte bir kapsam anlaşılsa da, çalışmanın alanını Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin eğitim politikasının meso düzey başlıklarından birisi olan yükseköğretim politikası başlığı altında geliştirilmeye çalışılan ve daha mikro düzeyde bir politika olan yurtdışı lisansüs...

When assessed from a global perspective; environmental problems, especially in the last five decades, have been a threat to almost all countries. International organisations and institutions struggle to develop effective solutions for arising issues. Climate change is also evaluated as one of the most crucial risks for the environment. European Com...

The implementation of sending scholarship students abroad that started in the 19th century by Sultan Selim III in Ottoman Empire continued during the period of other Sultans became a significant reference point for the abroad scholarship policy of Turkey. The students that were firstly sent abroad especially for military training, were sent to othe...

Public policy analysis requires a comprehensive research and a framework in order to figure out the details of the policies applied. Thus, many public policy analysis models are used in various policy fields so as to examine the all stages of the public policy making and implementation process. Stages model is one of the most well-known and the old...

As one of the most threatening issues in human life, smoking has been faced with many public policies in developed and developing countries. Even health issues which are caused by smoking are overwhelmingly known by the communities, smoking keeps its significance by damaging the health and budget which are directly connected with the life quality....

From Turkestan to Andalusia Spain, Medieval Islamic cities geographically occupied a wide area and thus, they had left their mark on the medieval era. Being one of these Islamic cities, Cordoba was seized by Arabs in 711 and the first urbanization activities began upon moving the government centre from Seville to Cordoba. Later on, as the capital c...

Education is crucial in the development of individuals and in the construction of a country’s future. At this point, states can shape individuals with the educational contexts according to their development philosophies. Governments that govern the statesconsider the demands of their electors while formulating the education policies as in many othe...

Conservative ideology which is a modern movement as opposed to Western modernisation emerged in the 18th century. Conservatism has been reshaped by various interpretations in different countries; states and the societies has been highly affected by this ideology. The concept of conservatism had an impact on politics and the society in the last peri...

Kamu politikaları hükümetlerin farklı alanlarda yapmakta oldukları faaliyetler olup toplumsal ihtiyaçlar doğrultusunda ortaya çıkmaktadır. Kalkınma sürecinde olan Türkiye'de nitelikli işgücü gereksinimini sağlamak amacıyla 1929 yılından itibaren yurtdışı lisansüstü burs politikası uygulanmaktadır. Bu çalışmada ilk olarak, kamu politikası ve analizi...