Regional Governance in Turkey on the Road to EU Membership

ISBN-13: 9783639130454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 316 str.

Ebru Ertugal

Opis

In the last decades across many parts of Europe aregional level of governance has been emerging, atrend which has not been observed in Turkey despiteits extreme regional disparities. Since the Helsinkisummit of the EU leaders in 1999 when Turkey wasadmitted as a candidate country, EU conditionalityhas been increasingly challenging Turkeyscentralised territorial governance. Thisbook has two overall aims. First, it aims to identifythe key mechanisms through which institutionalstability has been sustained over time hindering theemergence of a level of regional governance inTurkey. Second, it examines whether and theways in which EU conditionality and/orpolicy-learning is leading to institutional changein the current period through a comparative study ofthree regions in Turkey. This book addresses the gapin literature on institutional capacity at theregional level in Turkey and on the attitudes oflocal and regional actors in Turkey to the issue ofregional governance and the EU. The analysis in thisbook should be useful to professionals and regionalpolicy practitioners.

O autorze

Ebru Ertugal, Ph.D.: Studied Political Science at the Catholic
University of Leuven, Belgium. Assistant Professor at the Izmir
University of Economics, Turkey. Areas of research interest
include regional policy and governance, Europeanisation and
Turkey-EU relations.