Political Science and Administration

      Political Science and Public Administration, which are affined departments, deal with academic studies of political and administrative matters. As a discipline, Political Science analyzes the process of the range of sources and values in a political system. This discipline not only covers some bases about the subjects such as power, authority, legitimacy, social class, gender, ethnicity, and political participation; but it also touches the bases about state, government, political parties, pressure groups, and international organizations. Apart from this, the department studies political concepts such as political justice, ideologies and freedom, democracy, moral values, and equality.

      Department of Public Administration analyzes the process of decision-making and policy-making in an administrative system. The department is mostly considered as executive power of the states, and it deals with the organization, administration, and implementation of public politics on a local and national administration level. Therefore, the department contains schedule administration (planning, decision-making, organization, administration, implementation, and evaluation) and source administration (human resources management and budget). Department of Political Science and Public Administration has a common characteristic in terms of social communities’ focusing on public sphere.

      The aim of this department is to train conscious, rational, dynamic, and professional students who are good judges of national and international political, social, and economic changes and who perceive the transitions in Turkey as well as in the world in a better way.

      Department of Political Science and Public Administration makes the mid-level and senior executive candidates, who are trained for private and public sector chiefly in public sphere, more productive participants for our country by providing them with deep knowledge about political, social, and economic fields.