Ugur Sadioglu

Ugur Sadioglu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Hacettepe University in Ankara-Turkey. He is currently the Vice-Chairman of Local Governments Application and Research Centre of the same University and the Vice-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Hacettepe University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. He studied political science and public administration at Hacettepe University (BSc-2006). He was a visiting researcher at Duisburg-Essen University-Germany (as a part of Erasmus&Socrates Exchange Programme and by the scholarship of The Council of Higher Education) from 2008 to 2010. He received his PhD degree in comparision of local government reform process in Turkey and Germany from Hacettepe University in 2012. He was a visiting fellow at University of Cologne-Germany, Cologne Center for Comparative Politics between 2015 and 2016. He has been a member of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences since 2006. His research interests are public administration theory, new trends in public administration, local government and politics, urban policy and affairs, decentralization, e-government and development studies. He acted as a researcher on various administrative reform projects in Turkey and Germany. His three books were published in the area of local government. He recently presented many papers in national and international conferences and published in national and international journals extensively on local governments and administrative reform outcomes in Turkey.

Publications

The Understanding of Public Service Ethics in Turkish Municipalities: The Ankara Case
The Understanding of Public Service Ethics in Turkish Municipalities: The Ankara Case
Ugur Sadioglu, Ugur Omurgonulsen. © 2020. 18 pages.
Recent legal regulations provided more authorities and resources to municipalities, meanwhile corruption and unethical conduct cases were experienced more in the municipalities...
Theoretical Foundations and Discussions on the Reformation Process in Local Governments
Theoretical Foundations and Discussions on the Reformation Process in Local Governments
Ugur Sadioglu, Kadir Dede. © 2016. 555 pages.
Local government can be defined as a public entity acting as the sub-unit of a state or of a region, charged with the task of enforcing public policies. There have been many...
Preface
Preface
Ugur Sadioglu, Kadir Dede. © 2016. 7 pages.
This Preface is included in the book Comparative Studies and Regionally-Focused Cases Examining Local Governments.
Current Discussions on the Question: Remarks of Local Government's Reform through Comparative Perspective
Current Discussions on the Question: Remarks of Local Government's Reform through Comparative Perspective
Ugur Sadioglu, Kadir Dede. © 2016. 23 pages.
Subject of local governments has been attracting the attention of researchers from various disciplines in recent years. Local governments themselves and other related actors...
The Significance of The 2014 Local Elections in Turkey for Decentralisation and Local Autonomy
The Significance of The 2014 Local Elections in Turkey for Decentralisation and Local Autonomy
Ugur Sadioglu, Kadir Dede, Ali Arda Yüceyılmaz. © 2016. 26 pages.
30 March 2014 Local Elections were held in Turkey at the end of an extraordinarily political process and in a highly polarized atmosphere. The election exceeded the limits of the...
The Understanding of Public Service Ethics in Turkish Municipalities: The Ankara Case
The Understanding of Public Service Ethics in Turkish Municipalities: The Ankara Case
Ugur Sadioglu, Ugur Omurgonulsen. © 2016. 19 pages.
Recent legal regulations provided more authorities and resources to municipalities, meanwhile corruption and unethical conduct cases were experienced more in the municipalities...