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Populism and policy capacity: Evidence from an opposition municipality in istanbul

Title	Populism and policy capacity: Evidence from an opposition municipality in istanbul
Author	Sevinc, İ., Gur, Faik, Ertugal, Ebru
Publication Date:	2024-10-24
Publication Place	- Wiley
Subject	Turkey, Populism, Policy design, Policy capacity, Local government
Type	Periodical
Language	English
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID	0271-2075
Record ID	dfc79ea0-7516-4d17-95cc-9b4742387645
Library Location	International Relations
Date	2024-10-24
Notes	TÜBİTAK
Sample Text	Despite achievements in its conceptual rigor, policy capacity still represents a relatively depoliticized concept that fails to sufficiently consider the ways in which politics plays a role in its creation, mobilization, or decay. This article seeks to contribute to this debate by investigating the impact of populism on policy capacity, the type of policy capacity challenges posed and how they are related to populist policy design. Based on a case study of a municipality in Istanbul the article shows how populist politics and national populist policy design erode long-term municipal policy capacity by enabling the (ab)use of the rule of law, loss of expertise, exhaustion of critical assets such as urban land and financial resources, and erosion of public citizenship due to growing expectations in the form of particularistic benefits. Declining policy capacity in turn leads to a shift in municipal policy priorities.
DOI	10.1002/pad.2078

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Populism and policy capacity: Evidence from an opposition municipality in istanbul

Author Sevinc, İ., Gur, Faik, Ertugal, Ebru

Publication Date 2024-10-24

Publication Place - Wiley

Subject Turkey, Populism, Policy design, Policy capacity, Local government

Type Periodical

Language English

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Özyeğin University

Library Asset ID 0271-2075

Record ID dfc79ea0-7516-4d17-95cc-9b4742387645

Library Location International Relations

Date 2024-10-24

Notes TÜBİTAK

Sample Text Despite achievements in its conceptual rigor, policy capacity still represents a relatively depoliticized concept that fails to sufficiently consider the ways in which politics plays a role in its creation, mobilization, or decay. This article seeks to contribute to this debate by investigating the impact of populism on policy capacity, the type of policy capacity challenges posed and how they are related to populist policy design. Based on a case study of a municipality in Istanbul the article shows how populist politics and national populist policy design erode long-term municipal policy capacity by enabling the (ab)use of the rule of law, loss of expertise, exhaustion of critical assets such as urban land and financial resources, and erosion of public citizenship due to growing expectations in the form of particularistic benefits. Declining policy capacity in turn leads to a shift in municipal policy priorities.

DOI 10.1002/pad.2078