A Historical Synopsis of Over-feminized Local Governance in Neoliberal Turkey
Author
Yaraş, S.
Date
2014Source Title
Turkish Studies
Print ISSN
14683849
Publisher
Routledge
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
100 - 116
Language
English
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Abstract
In Turkey, important decentralization measures were taken after the 1980s. The new administrative model gave local governments the role of dealing with social exclusion while financing social welfare expenditures through entrepreneurial investment of their non-material resources. This study is an attempt to discuss how such a challenge for local governments has been resolved through the analysis of gendering impacts of three decentralization reform programs. © 2014 Taylor & Francis.