An Interactive e-Participation Model for the Public Administration System in Turkey: SIBIYO

Abstract

The notion of participation has been on the agendas again for supportive mechanisms of political and administrative pro- cesses after post-1980 period. Though many factors may be pointed among the possible causes, the growing lack of legiti- macy takes the front. It seems arguable and functional that the elimination of legitimacy problem and re-construction of trust towards politically elected ones (Secilmisler) and bureaucrati- cally assigned ones (Atanmislar) could be a function of civic engagement for public policy formulation and implemen- tation processes regarding the provision of public services. Therefore, the notion of participation, which is also accused as an ideological repressing tool for the upcoming demands rising from population at large on personalized or organized bases, is at the heart of a universal pervasion process. This text asserts such an actual argument that the notion of participa- tion could be transformed into some other functional forms of electronic means of citizen participation via websites for Turkish public administration system. By means of such an e-participation mechanism, administrative authorities in Tur- key could find functional tools by which it is more possible to challenge the political and administrative legitimacy crisis fa- ced with. Through such a mean of e-participation formed over World Wide Web (WWW), population at large can also present their complaints, information, denouncements and proposals to those administrative authorities at local, national or supra- national level. In return, administrative authorities can provide the public with better public services in such a way that some obstacles before the notion of participation would be elimina- ted as time and place.