MA Administrative Sciences

The program taught under the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the Institute of Social Sciences. This program aims to provide the students that have undergraduate backgrounds not only of Political Science and Public Administration but also of various disciplines with the ability of studying and doing research on administrative issues as structure and functions of state organization, administration fact, related 'public'. Administrative Sciences Master and Doctorate Programs launched in 1993. Administrative Science Postgraduate Program provides necessary inputs from economics politics, history fields and it focuses to analyse administrative facts and processes. In this context subject are opened to provide students that develop knowledges about theory and method issues; learn administrative behaviours, power and authority issues; expand research abilitiy with regard administrative process as planning and reform, institutional dimension such as bureaucracy, civil administration system, regulatory agencies. Subjects can be strengthened choosing subjects of other postgraduate programs as local governments and state theories. Compulsory subjects are Public Administration Discipline Issues, Public Organisation, Turkish Administrative History, Structural and Functional Issues of Public Administration, Public Personnel System, Modern Administrative Theories, Bureaucracy and Bureaucratic Elite, Public Administration and Reform. In addition to subjects, there are also seminars provided to deepen a specific matter.