BUREAUCRATIC REFORMS AND PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTABILITY: THE CASE OF TÜRKİYE

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2025-1

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DOĞMUŞ YURDAKUL, Makbule Didem

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The main aim of this study is to explain the transformation of public sector accountability in the public administration theory in general and within the context of bureaucratic reforms in Türkiye in particular. The study demonstrates that accountability debates differentiates in Türkiye due to the political and economic nature of changes shaping the administrative reform studies in both the pre and post 1980 period. Accountability has become the focus of reform studies in the 2000s, where it has been formally introduced to Turkish public administration with the Public Financial Management and Control Law No. 5018. Another aim of this study is to explain “managerial accountability” within the scope of the Public Financial Management (PFM) reforms taking place in Türkiye in line with the Law No. 5018. The implementation of the concept is deeply explored with a field study conducted in the Ministry of Health. The field study demonstrates that PFM reforms are in fact “managerial reforms” transforming the organisational structure in line with the New Public Management through implementing private sector means and mechanisms.

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public sector accountability, managerial accountability, public administration reform, public financial management reform, New Public Management

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/113409

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis