1. 1 BIG QUESTIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN TURKEY PROF. DR. MUHİTTİN ACAR HACETTEPE U NIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION acar42@yahoo.com

2. 2 PLAN Background Info about the Debate Original Questions (Acar & Öztaş, 2000) Second/Turkish Version (Acar & Öztaş, 2005) The Third/Updated List of Big Questions Q & A, C & C...

3. 3 THE DEBATE  Robert D. BEHN, PAR Article (1995)  Idendity & Scientific Status of the Discipline  Methodological Concerns vs. Big Issues  Identifying & Debating the Field’s BQs  Expansion of the Debate...

4. 4 PUTTING THE DEBATE INTO PERSPECTIVE  Inquiry & Interest Should Take Presedence over Methodological Concerns  A Framework, not a New Methodology  PA in a Democracy, not just POs & PMs  PA as Science, Art & Craft  Comparative & Contextualized Perspectives

5. 5 BIG QUESTIONS OF PA IN TR(2000)-1  Accountability Administrative Action & Achievement through Accountability  Bureaucracy Bipartisan Brokers, or Besieged Blame-takers ?  Change Change through Consensus and Compassion  Decentralization Development through Decentralization and Democratization

6. 6 BIG QUESTIONS OF PA IN TR(2000)-2  Education Enabling through Education, Experience and Ethics  Fault Lines Founding Fathers, Freedom, and Fragmentation  Globalization Gatekeepers Guide into Global?

7. 7 BIG QUESTIONS OF PA IN TR(2000)-3  History From Habits of the Heart to Horizons of Hope?  Idendity Interplay of Ideals, Ideologies, and Interests  Justice Journey of Hope

8. 8 BIG QUESTIONS OF A PA SCHOLAR  Public Administration as Praxis - ‘Reflective Practitioners’ - ‘Pracademics’ - ‘Prosumers ’  Public Administration as a Balancing Art - Prioritizing: Research vs. Education vs. Service - Pondering: Local-National Issues vs. Global Trends - Planning: Short-term vs. Medium-term vs. Long-term - Performing: Individual vs. Institutional vs. International

9. 9 BIG QUESTIONS OF PA IN TR(2013)  Pluralized vs. Polarized Polity & Politics  Justice for All vs. Palatial, Palliative & Politicized Acc.  De-constructing Demo-cratization & De-centralization  De-composing Cryony Capitalism & Corruption  Coping with Crisis, Chaos & Complexity

10. 10 CORE ISSUES OF PA IN TR(2013)  Common Concerns, Communities & Consensus  Coalition of the Clean, Competent & Competitive  Coordinative & Collaborative Capacity  Credibility  Creativity

11. 11 THANKS!