TÜRKİYE’DE KAMU POLİTİKASI ÇALIŞMALARININ AMME İDARESİ DERGİSİ’NDE YAYIMLANMIŞ MAKALELER ÜZERİNDEN ANALİZİ (1968-2015)

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to examine the way redounding public policy analysis, which has recently begun to institutionalized as a study field in Turkey, on Public Administration Journal (Amme İdaresi Dergisi). For this purpose, in the first part, the concepts related to field of study and developments that were influential on emergence of field as a discipline have been examined. In the second part, the scope of the discipline was tried to be determined. This section has provided an overview of public policy analysis which is necessary to examine the Public Administration Journal. All issues published during 48 years -between 1968 and 2015- were browsed and out of a total of 1334 articles, 74 public policy-related articles were selected for further analysis. In the third part, these articles included within the scope of research were examined. These articles were labeled as “policy studies” and they were categorized into three mutually non-exclusive categories as (i) early examples (core group), (ii) disciplinary articles producing knowledge of discipline, and (iii) sectoral examples.