The NGOs as policy actors : the case of TÜSİAD with regard to Turkey's Eu membership

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2004
Gündem, Şebnem
This study explores the effectiveness of NGOs within the policy process and governments2 decisions based on the case of TÜSİAD2s activities with regard to Turkey2s full membership process in the European Union. It firstly explains the process by which NGOs2 have become 3actors4 in world politics. The thesis, then, scrutinizes the role of NGOs in the policy process with regard to pluralist and corporatist paradigms and the concept of power since policy process can not be well understood without this theoretical background. After examining the roles of NGOs, especially the lobbying one, the importance of NGOs and strength of civil society for Turkey2s integration to the European.

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Ş. Gündem, “The NGOs as policy actors : the case of TÜSİAD with regard to Turkey’s Eu membership,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.