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At the Ottoman Bank Museum
Globalization and the Reform of Public Administration
Assoc. Prof. İzak Atiyas will be joining us to address another aspect of "Globalization Past and Present," our theme this season for the Voyvoda Street Economic History Lectures. In his presentation entitled, "Globalization and the Reform of Public Administration," Atiyas will examine the implications of public administration reform, the weaknesses of public administration in Turkey, the relationship between public administration and politics, recent public administration issues, and suggestions for reform. The lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, June 1, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and will be held free of charge.
Economist İzak Atiyas stresses the significance of public administration reform with the following words: "Over the past 10-15 years, the reform of public administration has figured prominently on the agenda of both developed and developing countries. One of the reasons for this is the spreading conviction that the state's traditional organizational structure and modus operandi are inadequate and the other stems from the belief that superior forms of organizational structure are possible."
Prof. Zafer Toprak was born in 1946. After graduating in 1969 from the Department of International Relations in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Ankara University, he completed a master's degree in economic history at the University of London, in 1971.
He then obtained his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Economics at Istanbul University, in 1981. Toprak currently teaches economic and social history in late Ottoman and contemporary Turkey, at Boğaziçi University. Toprak, who is founding chair and director of the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University, has published a number of books and more than 150 articles, in Turkish, English, French and German, on the economic, social and cultural histories of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic.
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Voyvoda Street
Economic History Lectures
Globalization and the Reform of Public Administration
Wednesday, June 1
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Free admission.
Assoc. Prof. İzak Atiyas
Department of Economics
Sabancı University
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