20 Yıllık Planlama Deneyimi Işığında— Türkiye'de Planlamanın İdari ve Hukuki Sorunları

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1981

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Tan , Turgut

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ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL PROBLEMS OF PLANNING IN TURKEY IN THE LIGHT OF TWENTY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE Many aspects of planning in Turkey are still subjects of debate despite twenty years of practice. While some problems are related with organizational issues, emanating from the role of the planning organization within the state apparatus, some others include legal aspects. The State Planning Organization (SPO), which was organized as the "staff headquarters" of the Civil Service, has also assumed responsibilities hardly compatible with this task. This functional change not only strained the relations of the SPO with other public agencies, but it also caused bottlenecks in its standing vis-a-vis the political power. Although the imperative nature of planning for the public sector is accepted, the rate of realization of the measures proposed for the public sector in Plans and Annual Programmes did not exceed 50 %. On the other hand, the juridical mechanisms, necessary for streamlining legal and administrative decisions with the provisions of the Plan, are inadequately organized. However, in harmonizing legal provisions with the Plan, the Constitutional Court and the Court of State made considerable contributions. While the former paid attention to the observance of the procedures stipulated by the Law No. 77, the latter investigated the principle of conformity to the public good in terms of Plan and Annual Programmes. On the other hand, the auditing made by the Court of Accounts in the context of expenditures made through the General and Annexed Budgets and the auditing of State Economic Enterprises in Accordance with Law No. 468, with the intent of providing discipline in the implementation of the Plan, have not yet reached a satisfactory level. In short, as it was stated in the Fourth Plan, the simultaneous improvement of the legal system and the development process is not materialized in the practice of the last twenty years. Planning was regarded just as a technical exercise in economics and the legal context of economic decisions was consistently ignored. Besides, the ambiguity still continues over the place of the basic planning exercises such as Plans and Annual Programmes in the legal system.

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