COURSE UNIT TITLE

: LOCAL GOVERNMENTS II

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KMY 3032 LOCAL GOVERNMENTS II COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Public Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ZERRIN TOPRAK KARAMAN

Offered to

Public Administration (Evening)
Public Administration

Course Objective

The Local Government II course is a basic course of Public Administration and shows the students the administrative and financial changes associated with the local government structure. It is aimed to teach the developments regarding the necessary arrangements needed in the restructuring process in Turkey and to provide the internalization of local democracy

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To know Local Governments' Relations with Central and Local Governments
2   To know the Democratic Local Government Structure
3   To know the relationship between local governments and democratization
4   To know the relationship between administrative structures and financial structures
5   To know Strategic Planning in Local Governments
6   To know Local Government and Public Relations

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General introduction of the course and Meeting Presentation of the general framework of the topics of Local Government II course, basic philosophy of the negotiated democracy
2 Subsidiarity and the Council of Europe
3 Local governments and the administration of local service structures
4 European Charter of Local Self-Government and the Additional Protocol
5 Draft European Charter of Regional Self-Government
6 Transfrontier cooperation in municipalities
7 Financial structures in local governments
8 Midterm
9 Midterm
10 Financial structures in local governments
11 The Relations of Central-local government
12 Participation to Public Life at the Local Level for Foreigners
13 Public Relations
14 Paper Analyses

Recomended or Required Reading

Zerrin Toprak (2014); Yerel Yönetimler, Siyasal Yayınevi , Ankara
Kalkınma Bakanlığı Raporları
TOPRAK, Zerrin Karaman(2009); Participation to the public life and becoming organized at local level in Romani settlements in Izmir, Land Use Policy, Volume 26, Issue 2, April 2009,
KARAMAN, Zerrin (2008); Willingness of Foreign Retired Residents to Participate in Local Public Life and Strategic Approaches to Relationship Networks Within the Local Community; Example of Antalya, Turkey European Journal of Economic and Political Studies(EJEPS), 1(2),
Karaman, Zerrin Toprak(2009), "Democratic Gains in Public Administration at Local Level in terms of CSR: Theory- and Practice-Based Approaches- Turkey and Izmir Metropolitan City , Professionals´ Perspectives of Corporate Social Responsibility, Springer- Social Policy Book, Idowu, Samuel O.; Leal Filho, Walter (Eds.)
Avrupa Yerel Yönetimler Özerklik Şartı(l995); Içişleri Bakanlığı Yayını.
Küresel Komşuluk(l996); TÇVY, Ankara.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

To remind the topics of the previous lesson for 15 minutes.
- To give a general overview on the topic of the current week.
- To give a lecture accompanied by a presentation prepared using the materials provided by the basic course book and other resources.
- To make control-oriented brainstorming practices during some weeks.
- To support the course topics with sample event examinations.
- To analyze the given case studies.
- To internalize the knowledge of students through homework applications.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

-

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

-

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

zerrin.toprak@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 18 18
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 3 1 3
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 108

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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