Dogan, Kadir Caner

As globalization increased its importance in the world after the 1980s, local governments emerged as an active administrative subject in this process. As a matter of fact, local governments increased their capacity in terms of democracy and efficiency by integrating with the new public administration reforms that increased their impact in this period. As a matter of fact, a similar process took place in Turkey. In this study, it is aimed to focus on democracy, participation and effectiveness at the principle and institutional level after the regulation of local governments in Turkey with new public management reforms. The method of the study is literature review within the framework of qualitative analysis.