Municipalities in Terms of Political and Administrative Participation: The Case of Kahramanmaraş

Abstract

As a result of the rapid increase in the urban population with industrialization, new organizations were needed for the provision of urban services. In order for urban services to be offered more effectively and efficiently, they should be provided by municipalities, which are the closest units to the service. Municipalities are not only units that provide services more effectively and efficiently. In addition, since they are the closest administrative unit to the public, they are public institutions where political and administrative participation is ensured effectively. Effective participation in municipalities makes a positive contribution to the development of local democracy in the country. With the development of local democracy, it develops in national democracy. The way to increase political and administrative participation is to take advantage of new democracy models instead of representative democracy tools. With this study, it has been tried to reveal the level of political and administrative participation of municipalities in Kahramanmaraş province. In the research, the political and administrative participation perception levels of the municipalities will be measured. The theoretical framework of the study will be created by making use of primary and secondary data obtained from domestic and foreign sources obtained from the literature. Content analysis method was applied to determine the political and administrative participation approach in the strategic plans of Kahramanmaraş Metropolitan Municipality and District Municipalities with the theory put forward within the theoretical framework.