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Item Open Access Budgeting and rent-seeking in government budgetary allocations(Bilkent University, 1996) Sağlam, Aziz İbrahimConsideration of the governments’ budgetary activity in the light of rent-seeking theory has been very limited and rent-seeking waste generated within the governments’ budget remained empty of empirical content. Katz and Rosenberg (1989) were the first authors to propose and apply a measure of rent-seeking, based on changes in government budgetary allocations. This thesis, alter analyzing the budget structure and the budgeting system in general and then in the Turkish framework, suggests a model to measure rent-seeking in government budgetary allocations. The measure is based on the supposition that every deviation in the expenditure part of the budget occurs as a result of rent-seeking activity and is indicative of a waste of resources.Item Open Access A comparison of the policy effectiveness of parliamentary and presidential systems in reducing budget deficits(Bilkent University, 1997) Sağlam, Hüseyin ÇağrıPolitical institutions, affect the policymaking capabilities o f the government. These capabilities influence the governments’ ability to make strategic policy choices that will help them in reaching their policy objectives. One o f the most important choice o f political institutions is the system o f government, that is, whether it is parliamentary or presidential. This thesis discusses how the choice of system o f government affects the ability o f reaching the policy objective of reducing budget deficit. It examines the decisionmaking attributes of the two systems and the impact o f these attributes on specific capabilities required to reduce budget deficits, namely, “ability to set and maintain priorities among many conflicting demands”, “ability to impose losses on powerful groups”, and “ability to allocate resources effectively”.