What role do the party organizations play in electoral campaigns? While the literature looking at developed countries has emphasized the importance of party canvassing efforts by local party organizations during campaigns (i.e. Black 1984, Krassa 1988, Huckfeldt and Sprague 1992, Denver et. al....

The European Commission awarded a contract in November 2005 to a consortium composed of the TARKI Social Research Institute (Hungary), CASE, Center for Social and Economic Research (Poland) and CEPS to analyse the socio-economic developments and the process of structural reforms in what were...

In this paper we aim at providing a general assessment of public administrative systems in Turkey both at local and central governments. Our work is based on a survey conducted in urban settlements. Our findings indicate that local governments? services are perceived to be relatively more...