Public administration reform in the context of the European Union enlargement process: the Hungarian and Turkish cases

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Şener, Hasan Engin

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In this study, administrative reform in the EU accession process was analysed with reference to the cases of Hungary and Turkey. The main goal of this study is to show that both objective (economy) and subjective (politics) factors are important and acceding countries to have room to manoeuvre in the context of the social-liberal framework of the EU. To this end, necessary causality between neoliberal administrative reform and EU accession, and determinism in the enlargement process, which leaves no room to manoeuvre for candidate countries, are denied. In conclusion, it is seen that since there is no public administration model, candidate countries are free to determine the content of the administrative reforms within the framework of general principles set by the EU. Moreover, it is found that the EU accession process is closely related to modernisation of the public administration system in the candidate countries and administrative reform has been overlapped and equalized to EU accession. Finally, it is understood that administrative reform with its extensive content, caused centralisation.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609836/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17975

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H. E. Şener, “Public administration reform in the context of the European Union enlargement process: the Hungarian and Turkish cases,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2008.