OTTOMAN EMPIRE’S STRUGGLE WITH CORRUPTION AND MALADMINISTRATION PROF. DR. MUHİTTİN ACAR H ACETTEPE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
THE PERIOD Significant Efforts for ‘Modernizing Gov’t’: 1. Tanzimat (Regulation, 1839) 2. Islahat (Reform, 1856) 3. Kanun-i Esasi (Constitution, 1876) ‘New Era’ of Penal Code & Prosecutions: 1. Penal Code of 1840 & More Trials of High-Profile Bureaucrats...
THE RESOURCES Major Scholarly Texts & Articles Düstur (Imperial Laws & Orders Collections) Takvim-i Vekayi (Official Gazzette)Collections Vak’anüvis Chronicles (e.g., Ahmet Cevdet Paşa, Ahmet Lütfi Efendi...) Ottoman Archives (BOA) İrade Dahiliye, İrade Hariciye, & İrade Meclis-i Vala Collections (Interior, Foreign & Supreme Council).
THE TEAM Me...Muhittin ACAR Mehmet SEYİTDANLIOĞLU (Professor of History at Hacettepe University) A Junior Researcher (of History or Political Science?)
THE TIMING ‘Effectively’ Starting February 2013 Keeping up with WP2 Shedule...
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