The world has witnessed a transformation process associated with the drastic changes in
social, political and economic spheres under the constraints of neo-liberalism with opening
up new challenges for humanity. At that context, as a global problem, poverty has been
aggravating at the world-wide and now urban areas are more exposed to risks of poverty. In
this regard, reforms of that restructuring process have centered on the requirement of local
administrations at poverty struggle. The purpose of this study is to explore local policy
initiatives of local administrations at combating urban poverty with also taking into
consideration the central government practices. By the help of the GEKA provinces of
Denizli, Aydin, and Mugla cases, urban poverty struggle has been examined in detail by a
method covering survey application to the impoverished and the in-depth interview method
with local and central government officials. At the study, it is seen that in each case study,
local administrations have different institutional, political and social service based
contingency variables. Local authorities of case provinces cannot produce systematic,
standardized, equal and general poverty alleviation policies and services because of the
inherent nature of local government tied to uneven development and contingent local
variation. Thus, within the limitation of the study, urban poverty struggle have been searched
in specific cases, but it is not possible to determine the results of the research to other cases
in Turkey. Even though the research covers up few cases at the urban level, the results will
be worthwhile and shed light on other future studies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614322/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 May 2012 |
| Creators | Onez Cetin, Zuhal |
| Contributors | Ersoy, Melih |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | Access forbidden for 1 year |
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