Abstract
Compared to the past, the subsidiarity principle has become more apparent with the implementation of the Metropolitan Municipality Law No. 5216 in 2004 and the Municipality Law No. 5393 in 2005. While the metropolitan municipalities were empowered with the development called the reform of local governments, the duties and authorities of the district municipalities in metropolitan cities were reduced. Due to the administrative power of the district municipalities, metropolitan municipalities almost became “new centers” at the local level. In case, the discourse of localization actually caused a new centralization movement in the local administration system of Turkey. Moreover, with the abolition of special provincial administrations, the duties and authorities of metropolitan municipalities expanded to rural areas. Therefore, the centralization process in local governments contained all of the city boundaries. In this article, the centralization tendency in the case of metropolitan municipalities that makes them “leaders of local governments” in metropolitan cities where a two-level metropolitan management system is applied will be examined.
Highlights
It can be said that the history of the institutional culture of local governments in Turkey does not date back so long compared with developed countries
With the Law of 5216, while some significant authorities of the central government were assigned to local administrations, it reduced the power of administrative tutelage on the local units
It can be argued that a new center other than the central government was established in local governments because some authorities of the center over local governments were delegated to the metropolitan municipalities to be applied to the district municipalities
Summary
It can be said that the history of the institutional culture of local governments in Turkey does not date back so long compared with developed countries. The need for a new local government model emerged for metropolitan cities to provide their requirements. With the Law of 5216, while some significant authorities of the central government were assigned to local administrations, it reduced the power of administrative tutelage on the local units. As a consequence of these developments, a perception occurred that the authorization of the metropolitan municipalities tending from the center towards the local turned them into a new and effective center at the local level. The tendency towards centralization which is claimed to be for the benefit of metropolitan municipalities in Turkey is aimed to be studied Based on this given information; it is questioned the hypothesis that a considerable tendency towards centralization in the management of metropolitan municipalities in Turkey was realized, and the authorities of the lower level metropolitan district municipalities were reduced from power and services. Various suggestions will be offered to local governments for providing local services by closest administrations with more participatory and democratic methods
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