Mahalleye Dönüşen Köylerin Muhtarlarının Hizmetlerde Etkinlik ve Verimliliğe İlişkin Algısı: Muğla Deneyimi

Abstract

With the Law No. 6360, which began to rule in April 2014, aiming ensuring efficiency and efficiency in the services provided by local governments, major changes were introduced in the local government structure in Turkey. The service area of metropolitan municipalities expanded to provincial boundaries. The scale of local services and the financial power of metropolitan municipalities were increased. The towns and villages have been transformed into neighborhoods of districts in the metropolitan municipalities. This study aims to examine the extent to which the law, in views of mukhtars, being as a mukhtar before and after the law, by a survey and loose structured interview. The findings were evaluated in terms of efficiency and efficiency in local services. The result shows the importance of the scale of the local service has emerged and there are different service expectations in the villages that have been transformed into the neighborhoods.