Public Administration
Structural issues and administrative mentality should be evaluated jointly in the public reform and “good governance” should be of the essence. In order to form an efficient public reform policy, processes should be devised in a participatory manner.
The public administration should be transparent both in itself and to the public and should be able to account for how it has used the authority and resources which have been entrusted to its care. The public resources should be used efficiently and in a way that does not disrupt the financial discipline, merit should be made the principal bench mark in appointments and promotions, long term thinking and the capacity for acting with strategic approaches should be developed. A public personnel regime that will implement the principle of merit in the public sector and will make it attractive for qualified work force should be prepared. The total quality management philosophy which increases productivity and transparency and e-state practices should be the main instruments of the public administration reform.
The public reform results should be examined on a regular basis for continuous development. The most correct way of analysing the public administration reform results is regulatory impact analyses. For this reason, periodical impact analyses regarding the policies that have been adopted and sharing the results of such analyses has a lot of importance.
Another dimension of the restructuring in the public administration is the local governments reform. In spite of the fact that a part of the authorities belonging to the central administration have been transferred to the local governments with some of the arrangements made during the recent years; the impact of the centralist approach continues. The local governments and the provincial organisations should be taken up with a common administrative mentality and a local governments reform enhancing the institutional capacities of local governments, developing the possibilities for creating resources at the local level, enabling the participation of the people and the non-governmental organisations to the decision making processes and providing an effective supervision of compliance with the laws and a people’s inspection possible should be realised.
“Ethics in the State” bears a critical importance in terms of increasing the society’s trust towards the state and reinforcing its belief in the rule of law. In this framework; it is necessary to develop the ethical infrastructure standards concerning the executive, legislative and judiciary power that form the state. What is of the essence here is for ethical applications to be implemented, with an integrated approach, at all the levels of the state. Consolidating the ethical infrastructure with other elements such as political determination, an efficient legal infrastructure and transparency mechanisms is a determining factor in terms of the success of the public administration reform.
