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71 J.L. Pol'y & Globalization 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/jawpglob71 and id is 1 raw text is: ISSN 2224-3240 (Paper) ISSN 2224-3259 (Online) Vol.71, 2018 HE A Research on the Effects of the New Public Administration Approach on Local Administrations F.Bettil, Aksogan PhD Candidate, Inonu University, Institute of Social Sciences, Malatya, Turkey Abstract The traditional public administration understanding that lasted until the 1980s gave its place to a solid, hierarchical and bureaucratic, market-based, decentralized public administration understanding that is more flexible after a paradigm shift in management. The international developments that are taking place today, along with the reforms in the political, economic, social and cultural fields, also necessitate changing in public administration. In our study, the impact of the reforms on local administrations with the new public administration understanding in Turkey will be examined. This effect is versatile and evaluated from a different point of view considering anti-bureaucratic structure, participation in governance, openness and accountability, reforms taking place in the axis of strategic planning and localization and change process. Keywords: New Public Administration Approach, Localization, Local Administrations, Reform, Globalization 1. Introduction The world is experiencing a rapid change thanks to technological development and the transition to information society with globalization. Organizational structures have started their own modernization processes in various dimensions in order to adapt to this rapid change. Localization can be considered as a development aimed at solving problems caused by globalization, to provide flexibility and diversity against socio-economic monotony and central organization. (Al, 2008). On the other hand, the new public administration approach has adopted the idea of preserving and developing local values as well as universal values. This situation has increased the importance of local people, local administrations and cities. This approach, which is called as the new concept of public administration, advocates that the traditional public administration approach can not respond to changing needs of the day, and expresses that it is quite old as a management approach and adds a different pespective and value to the public administration. As a result of this large-scale change, the wishes and expectations of the society have also changed and increased. States could not resist to this change anymore, and local administrations have increased their importance due to the developments and have started to spread central administration authoritizations and responsibilities depending on the aforementioned processes. The new public approach and the economic-political base approach have increased the importance of urbanization within process. The high urbanization speed in developing countries, the diversity of services and other facilities offered by the cities of the developed countries have led to greater emphasis on social, political and economic aspects of the cities. Today, the strengthening of local administrations and the restruction according to this aim are considered as one of the indispensable elements in providing quality service as well as in socio-economic development. With the globalizing change; the strong national state and centralized management concept of the old times gradually gave its place to a structure in which localization has become the foreground. During this transformation, new roles of center and local are being discussed and rebuilt considering the unique conditions of the countries. The new management paradigm is called as the New Public Administration in the literature. The factors that reveal the new concept of public administration are gathered under three topics as political-ideological, economic and social factors. These can be listed as political factors, economic factors and social factors. Political factors are developments that take place within the framework of the new management concept, that predict a lot of changes in the field from the methods of service delivery to privatization, leading to the questioning of the role of the state. Economic factors are developments in public sector services, international trade, budget deficits, economic crises, private sector methods and techniques in the welfare state. Social factors consist of the factors such as the problems caused by the change of the population structure, human rights, democracy, increasing education level and individuals seeking their right and their changing expectations; and consequently, public administrations becoming unresponsive and reducing trust in public institutions. (Bilgic, 2003: 28-32). In the course of this radical change, it can be said that international competition has concentrated on the cities. Many events are carried out in cities and important decisions are taken there having global and international importance. Many cities have begun to have a more image and recognition than the county they are in. The subsequent point increased the significance of the city administration and ensured the expansion of metropolitan administrative structures. Specific legal arrangements have been made for the management of special countries in their countries such as London, Toronto, Tokio and Mumbai. 1 Journal of Law, Policy and Globalization WWW.1_1 0

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