Regional Policy and Governance

Course content

The aim of this course is to introduce you to the literature and on regional policy and governance to equip you with analytical tools necessary to understand the changing spatiality of public policies and administration in Turkey. Throughout the course, the international examples, and especially the case of the European Union countries will be discussed. The objective of these discussions is to help you grasp the dynamics that (will) influence and shape the path of the public administration system and the policy process in Turkey on the way to integration with the EU. The course will finally cover the recent developments in Turkey in light of these discussions.