Empowerment of the executive : impact of decrees having force of law on Turkish politics

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the trends of empowerment of executive and rationalization of parliament and their instruments. Executive -legislative relations in different government systems and the concepts like rationalization of parliament, delegative democracy, decline of parliament are elaborated with a particular reference to executive decree authority. Also the work argues the relation between economic crisis and quest for a powerful executive. And the crux of this study is that it attempts at revealing the role of the decrees having force of law in political systems with a special reference to Turkish case.