KAMU YÖNETİMİNİN KADİM PARADOKSU: NEPOTİZM VE MERİTOKRASİ
NEPOTISM AND MERIT IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Summary/Abstract: Public administration system is the most significant mechanism that plays a key role in the management of the state. For a healthy functioning of the public bureaucracy, a sound personnel regime which can be adapted to the conditions of the regime is needed. Today, most countries especially in Europe have succeeded a sercious breakaway from nepotism to merit-based systems, but Turkey continues to progress on the basis of public personnel regime which is inherited from the Ottoman Empire. In the light of the experience in the past, nepotism has had considerable impact on public administration system due to the political parties. However, public servants who are not employed on the basis of merit in the public administration to cause serious problems, which brought about the need for resorting to some measures. In order to prevent nepotism, various laws have been enacted. Today, in the context of merit, Turkish public management system has taken a serious path but it is still a long way from the point that it desires; yet, Turkey wants to reach the targets in the context of European Union criteria. The ultimate obstacle in this path is the exceptional public servant cadres seen in public administration. What is needed to develop a sound public administration system is to put into practice the meritocracy principles that are only on paper and to establish a Merit Protection Board for this purpose. This study aims to shed light on the historical process of the Turkish public administration system while giving the experiences of various countries from nepotisim to merit.

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