COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THEORY OF BUREAUCRACY AND THE TURKISH BUREAUCRACY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 5028 THEORY OF BUREAUCRACY AND THE TURKISH BUREAUCRACY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ALI FARUK MUTLUSU

Offered to

Public Administration

Course Objective

It is aimed to understand the role of the bureaucracy in the modernization process in Turkey, and the bureaucracy of political power relations in our country today, it is important to understand the functioning of the political and administrative structure in Turkey.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to understand development of bureaucracy in the historical process and to reveal the relationship between state-of-the bureaucracy and social structure
2   Being able to reveal the administrative relations between primitive, traditional, feudal, and modern societies
3   Being able to reveal the structure of the bureaucracy Ottoman Period
4   Being able to explain Today's Turkish bureaucracy in comparison .
5   Being able to analyze the theoretical framework

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Informations of courses
2 The development of the bureaucracy in the historical process, relationship between state-of-bureaucracy and social structure
3 Administration in primitive societies
4 Administration in traditional societies,
5 Administration and the bureaucracy in feudal society
6 The political-administrative structure and bureaucracy in medieval societies,
7 Mid-term
8 Theories of bureaucracy 1
9 Theories of bureaucracy 2
10 Traditional administration structure and the bureaucracy of the Ottoman Empire and the bureaucracy in the process of Ottoman modernization
11 The role of the bureaucracy in the Young Ottomans and the Young Turks movements
12 The effects of the bureaucratic structure of the Tanzimat reforms and Islahat the reform, The bureaucracy in first and second constitutionalist period
13 The bureaucracy, in the Republican period: the single-party period and The bureaucracy, in the Republican period:the bureaucracy after 1950
14 General evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Bilal Eryılmaz; Bürokrasi, 1993-Izmir
- Faruk Mutlusu; Türkiye de Merkeziyetçiliğin Siyasal Gelişmeye Etkisi, Yayınlanmamış Doktora Tezi, DEÜ Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 1997-Izmir
- Faruk Mutlusu; "Siyasal Rejim Kamu Yönetimi Ilişkisi ve Türk Kamu Yönetiminde Merkeziyetçiliğin Siyasal Nedenleri", Nezihe Sönmez'e Armağan , D.E.Ü. Iktisadi ve Idari Bilimler Fakültesi Maliye Bölümü, Izmir-1997, s.401-420
- Faruk Mutlusu; "Siyasal ve Toplumsal Gelişme Sürecinde Kamu Yönetiminin Değişen Fonksiyonu ve Türk Kamu Yönetiminde Merkeziyetçilik", Düşünceler, Şubat 1997, Yıl:11, Sayı:10, s.191-204
- Faruk Mutlusu; "Bürokrasi-Bürokrat-Siyaset Ilişkisi ve Bürokratik Katılım", Türk Idare Dergisi, Eylül 1999, Yıl: 71, Sayı: 424, s.133-148
- Şükrü Özen; Bürokratik Kültür, TODAIE Yayını, 1996-Ankara
- Carter V. Findley; Osmanlı Devletinde Bürokratik Reform (1789-1922), Iz Yayıncılık, Istanbul-1994, s.15
Cemil Oktay; Hum Zamirinin Serencamı, Bağlam Yayınları, Istanbul-1991




Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Preparation of presentation making use of relevant sources,
Mutual contribute to discussions,
The article analyzes,
Case study discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

faruk.mutlusu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 135

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.1324
LO.24
LO.343
LO.45
LO.552