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Decentralization and Capacity in Public Governance

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Abstract

This chapter outlines the theoretical and conceptual dimensions of public governance, decentralization, and governance capacity. Laying out the usage of decentralization and capacity from a public governance perspective, the chapter connects the disparate literature of governance, decentralization, and capacity in a functional and analytical way, and puts forward the hypotheses about the relationships between decentralization and governance capacity to be tested in the country case of Turkey.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    In its Greek origin, ‘governance’ refers to ‘steering’.

  2. 2.

    Before the governance era, there was a more clear-cut distinction between an administrative branch and political branch of government; therefore, the differences between administrative decentralization and political decentralization were more apparent. For example, in Schmandt (1972), administrative decentralization refers to decentralization toward field agencies (also in Fesler 1965), while political decentralization refers to decentralization toward local government or states.

  3. 3.

    Davey (2000) makes certain distinctions between administrative and fiscal decentralization. Accordingly, financial management, budgeting accounting, delegation, procurement, auditing, or other similar processes through which local governments manage their financial affairs are not considered as part of the fiscal decentralization policies.

  4. 4.

    The elapsed time to start running.

  5. 5.

    The required time to reach full speed.

  6. 6.

    Morgan explains ‘harder’ capabilities such as ‘policy analysis or financial management’ and ‘softer’ capabilities as ‘the ability to earn legitimacy, to adapt, to create meaning and identity’.

  7. 7.

    Authors give different ratios on the failure of PPPs from 30 to 70% (see Duysters et al. 1999; Park and Ungson 2001; Overby 2006; Klijn 2010: 194).

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