Our academician’s project deemed eligible to receive support from TUBITAK
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The Project entitled “Turkish Bureaucracy in the Context of Neo-Rightist Politics” carried out by a team in which Prof. Dr. Ömer Çaha, Faculty Member of our University’s Political Science and International Relations Department, has also taken part as a researcher, was evaluated by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) and decided to be supported.
The project team, which includes the Chief Advisor to the President Prof. Dr. Şükrü Karatepe as a consultant, also includes Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Bingöl from Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Prof. Dr. Özcan Sezer from Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ömer Baykal and Faculty Member Dr. Erdi Topçuoğlu from Bartın University.
The project will be based on an interdisciplinary study featuring political science, political sociology and management science disciplines. In this context, subjects such as the relationship between politics and bureaucracy in Türkiye in the last 40 years, the current state of bureaucracy within the framework of new public management, the role played by bureaucratic mechanisms in democratic processes, the social origins of bureaucrats and their attitudes towards rising values in the globalization process will be explored.
Within the scope of the project, a survey will be administered to 1338 people consisting of Governors, Presidents, General Managers, Regional Managers, Deputy Governors, District Governors, Deputy General Managers, Deputy Regional Managers, Provincial Managers, Deputy Provincial Managers, Head of Departments, Branch Managers and Experts in 12 provinces, and face-to-face in-depth interviews will be conducted with 117 people. The budget of the project, which will last for 30 months, will be 986 thousand TL.
