European Union, especially expanding its borders after 1990s and intensifying its integration process within the union, gives great importance to local and regional administrations around the principle of subsidiarity and perception of democratic governance. EU demands all of the candidate member states to harmonize their national laws and regulations with EU directives. Turkey, started its membership negotiations as a candidate member state in 2005, had already launched reforms on local and regional administrations in 2002. For the last thirty years, different Turkish governments have made some attempts to reform public administration in general and local government administrations in specific. However, reforms in the last decade have been the most successful ones to make public administrations more accountable and to empower the local authorities to deliver local services better at the local level. These reforms are triggered by both internal dynamics such as the change in the structure of the Turkish economy, rapid urbanization, increasing demand for more democracy and development of civil society; as well as external dynamics such as globalization and European Union (EU) membership process. European Union, especially expanding its borders after 1990s and intensifying its integration process within the union, gives great importance to local and regional administrations around the principle of subsidiarity and perception of democratic governance. EU demands all of the candidate member states to harmonize their national laws and regulations with EU directives. Turkey, started its membership negotiations as a candidate member state in 2005, had already launched reforms on local and regional administrations in 2002. For the last thirty years, different Turkish governments have made some attempts to reform public administration in general and local government administrations in specific. However, reforms in the last decade have been the most successful ones to make public administrations more accountable and to empower the local authorities to deliver local services better at the local level. These reforms are triggered by both internal dynamics such as the change in the structure of the Turkish economy, rapid urbanization, increasing demand for more democracy and development of civil society; as well as external dynamics such as globalization and European Union (EU) membership process. Pizza lunch will be served.
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We’re Turning 100!
To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”
Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.
