مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Tutelage Audit Conducted During the Formation Process of Local Government Unions within the Context of Local Development and a Model Proposal

Abstract :

The issue of localization that is developed within the framework of globalization throughout the world and Turkey has brought forward the concept of local development even further. Within this scope, regulations and related local government reforms regarding the reconstruction of public administration in Turkey have been implemented on one hand while development agencies that intend to facilitate regional development through regional competition have been integrated to the system. The Law on Local Government Union which was enacted during the aforementioned period has a crucial role among local government reforms. This study intends to propose a model for the purpose of initiating a more efficient organization of local government unions, which are significant in terms of regional development, and central government by taking the tutelage relations built between them into consideration. In Turkey, the provincial private administrations, municipalities and villages that remain within local government organizations require approval from the council of ministers in order to form a union. This circumstance has complicated the formation of local government unions and has created obstacles while attempts are made to provide efficient, productive and continuous local services due to the powerful tutelage applied during the formation process. Attempting to form a more efficient audit relationship by decentralizing the powerful tutelage, this study has applied content analysis and archival research methods. In this respect, it explains the importance of local government unions that are one of the crucial devices of regional development in global terms while the subsequent chapters deal with the historical development of local government unions in Turkey, the administrative tutelage implemented as well as the state of local government unions, and the final chapter proposes a new tutelage model during the institutionalization process of the aforementioned organizations. It has been concluded that if the decentralization of the tutelage relations within the scope of the current model during the formation process of local government unions takes place, the formation of these organizations shall be more efficient with more effective services.