Abstract
This article examines the practical application of legal reforms to fight corruption in Turkey, focusing on three policy sectors: civil administration, public finance management and public procurement. Facing increasing pressure, incumbent governments have adopted international anti-corruption norms and programs in the last two decades. However, the adoption and adaptation of formal institutions tends to remain decoupled from informal behavioral practices, thereby curbing the effectiveness of Europeanization in the Turkish public sector – albeit to varying degrees. The policy comparison of this article shows that external anti-corruption efforts, especially those initiated by the EU, can help domestic actors to address the problem of decoupling when certain domestic factors are present.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 439-458 |
| Journal | Turkish Studies |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Bibliographical note
AcknowledgementsI would like to thank Tanja Börzel, Paul Levin and Alexander Bürgin for their valuable comments on the earlier versions of this article.
Funding
This article is based on author’s PhD research, which was funded by KFG-College on Transformative Power of Europe at Freie Universität Berlin. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at IPSA World Congress in Montreal and ECPR General Conference in Glasgow with the funding of Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS).