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Course Code: 
PA 101
Course Period: 
Autumn
Course Type: 
Core
P: 
3
Application: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
5
Course Language: 
İngilizce
Courses given by: 
Hande Tek Turan
Course Objectives: 

The course aims that students learn basic principles of public administration and its functions.

Course Content: 

The course emphasizes on the conceptual infrastructure and terms for public administration. It provides an introductory survey to,

  • analyze all theories and practices developed in the administrative field,
  • present universal principles of administrative science,
  • explain the emergence and development of public administration as a discipline, and describe differences between public and private management affairs,
  • give a particular examination of administrative structures in various countries specially at continental and Anglo-Saxon administrative mentality.

In addition, the course aims to evaluate the new public management principles appeared since the early 1980s in the developed countries.

Course Methodology: 
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion, 9: Simulation, 12: Case Study
Course Evaluation Methods: 
A: Testing, C: Homework

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Program’s Learning Outcomes

Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

To examine the historical development between the public’s will, democracy and power within the concept of public and to analyze the government and organizational systems systems are analyzed.

 

 

1,5

1,2,3

A

To learn the theories of Public Administration.

1,5

1,2,3

A
 

To examine the evolution of Public Administration.

1,10

 

1,2,3

A

To survey the evolution of the bureaucracy.

1,13

1,2,3

A

To compare and contrast the public and private sectors.

12

1,2,3

A

To analyze the public administration system in Turkey.

1,5

1,2,3

A
 

Course Flow

Week

Topics

Study Materials

1

A general introduction of the course and perspectives

  

2

Basic concepts and characteristics of public administration

  

3

Emergence and development of public administration as a discipline (what is “public administration”?)

  

4

Main approaches and theories in the study / analyse of public administration

  

5

Classic Organization and Public Administration Theory

  

6

The differences and similarities between puclic and private affairs

  

7

What is bureaucracy? Max Webers’ approach? Bureaucracy and PA ; developement and problems of bureaucracy

  

8

MIDTERM EXAM

  

9

New Public Management -Governance – Good governance

  

10

Organization of Public Administration (central / local structure)

  

11

Local Authorities : conceptual and institutional dimension

  

12

 Local Autonomy

  

13

Morality, Ethics and Administrative Responsibility

  

14

Public Policies – Policy making process

  

15

Policy Transfer / Transfer of Administrative Reform

 

16

FINAL EXAM

 
 

Recommended Sources

Textbook

  

Additional Resources

  
 

Material Sharing

Documents
  • AYKAÇ Burhan, DURGUN Şenol,YAYMAN Hüseyin (2003), « Türkiye’de Kamu Yönetimi », Yargı Yayınevi, Ankara, 642 s.

 

  • BALCI Asım, NOHUTÇU Ahmet, ÖZTÜRK Namık Kemal, COŞKUN Bayram (2003), « Kamu Yönetiminde Çağdaş Yaklaşımlar », Seçkin Yayınevi, Ankara, 407 s.

 

  • ÇEVİK Hasan Hüseyin (2004), « Türkiye’de Kamu Yönetimi Sorunları », Seçkin Yayınevi, Ankara, 352 s.

 

  • ERGUN, Turgay / POLATOĞLU, Aykut (1992), « Kamu Yönetimine Giriş », Türkiye ve Orta Doğu Amme İdaresi Enstitüsü, Ankara

 

  • ERYILMAZ Bilal (2010), « Bürokrasi ve Siyaset, Bürokratik Devletten Etkin Yönetime », Alfa Yayınları, 266 s.

 

  • GÖZÜBÜYÜK Şeref (2001), « Türkiye’nin Yönetim Yapısı », Turhan Kitabevi, Ankara

 

  • GÜLER Birgül Ayman, (2005), « Devlette Reform Yazıları », Paragraf Yayınevi, Ankara, 252 s.

 

  • GÜLER Birgül Ayman, (2009-2010), « Türkiye’nin Yönetimi: Yapı », İmge Ktabevi Yayınları, 359 s.

 

  • KARASU, Koray (2004), « Kamu Yönetimi Disiplininin Kökenine İliskin Bir Not » II. Kamu Yönetimi Forumu Bildirileri, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayını, Ankara, s. 225 - 242.

 

  • ÖZER M.Akif (2005), « Yeni Kamu Yönetimi, teoriden uygulamaya », Platin Yayınevi, Ankara, 510 s.

 

  • TURAN, Menaf (2005), « Bölge Kalkınma Ajansları, Nedir, Ne Değildir? », Paragraf Yayınevi, Ankara, 310 s.

Assignments

  

Exams

  
 

Assessment

IN-TERM STUDIES

NUMBER

PERCENTAGE

Midterm

1

40

Final 

1

50

Attendance 

1

10

Total

 

100

Contribution of final exam to overall grade

 

50

Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade

 

50

Total

 

100

Course’s Contribution to Program

No

Program Learning Outcomes

Contribution

1

2

3

4

5

 

When students have completed the Public Administration Undergraduate Program, they will be able to;

 

 

 

 

X

1

To know the state theories and universal principles of public administration

       X

 

2

To know that the legal structure of Turkish public administration

        

X

3

 Competence of analyzing the current administrative and political issues in the light of Turkey's socio-political history

       X

 

4

 Acquiring communication and leadership skills for the public, NGO and private sectors.

       X

 

5

To have the qualifications to develop and implement public policies at the local and national level

       X

 

6

Effective use of technology in the public and private sectors

 

X

 

 

 

7

An ability to analyze global and regional developments

 

 

X

 

 
             

 

 

ECTS

Activities

Quantity

Duration
(Hour)

Total
Workload
(Hour)

Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)

16

3

48

Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)

16

3

48

Mid-terms

1

3

3

Homework

14

2

28

Final examination

1

3

3

Total Work Load

 

 

130

Total Work Load / 25 (h)

 

 

5,20

ECTS Credit of the Course

 

 

5
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