Central-Local Government Relations in Turkey and Yemen: A Comparative Study

MARWA ALTOWAITEE, ISRAEL NYABURI NYADERA, and MURAT ONDER - Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey
 
This paper aims to examine the evolution and changes in the public administration systems of Turkey and Yemen from a historical perspective. It adopts the concept of administrative history to investigate how the two countries, which share similar historical administrative experiences under the Ottoman Empire, ended up with very different structures. The study focuses on the reforms and changes that have occurred in the relations between the central and the local government systems of the two countries. It establishes that, over the years, the two countries adopted different forms of administrative practices that have had a significant impact on their contemporary socio-economic and political situation. It concludes that Turkey has benefited from adopting key administrative reforms while Yemen, currently on the brink of collapse due to the ongoing civil war, can trace some of its woes to inadequate and ineffective reforms in its administrative system.