Europeanisation, Good Governance and Corruption in the Public Sector The Case of Turkey Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy Series

When and to what extent external actors, especially the EU, contribute to induce legal and administrative changes and help domestic authorities address the disconnect between good governance standards and corrupt practices? Comparing external promotion of anti-corruption norms and provisions in civil administration, public finance management and public procurement in Turkey this book identifies the domestic conditions under which external actors can affect real-world outcomes. Providing a comprehensive, empirical account of Turkey?s fight against corruption, the book?s cross-sectoral analysis explores the power relations between major political actors and bureaucratic state elites, and examines how structural administrative factors filter external pressure for anti-corruption reforms and determine the prospects for institutional change in the Turkish public sector. This welcome addition to literature on Europeanisation and external good governance promotion makes an important contribution to the academic and policy debate regarding the "politics" of anti-corruption reforms in Turkey.

1. Introduction
2. When do external actors help countries to fight against corruption? Developing a theoretical framework
3. International anti-corruption regimes and their implications for Turkey
4. Plagued with corruption? Overview of corruption and anti-corruption in Turkey
5. Initial misfit and institutional change in Turkey’s fight against corruption: Mapping divergent outcomes in the public sector
6. Turkey’s fight against corruption: External incentives and domestic politics
7. Europeanisation and good (and bad) governance in Turkey: A cross-sectoral assessment in the public sector

8. Concluding remarks

Digdem Soyaltin is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Istanbul Kemerburgaz University. Previously she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Stockholm University Institute of Turkish Studies (SUITS) and a consultant in projects conducted by Transparency International, Council of Europe and European Union on good governance and anti-corruption policies and judicial sector reforms in Turkey. She received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at Freie Universitat Berlin and worked as a research fellow at the Research College on Transformative Power of Europe (KFG) during her PhD studies. Her main research interests are Europeanisation and domestic change, public policy and governance, Turkish politics and more specific policies of fight against corruption.