Evaluate the existing political oversight role of Turkish parliament over the public finance and in this context analyzed the new Turkish Presidential Government System

Mustafa Biçer

doi:10.14687/jhs.v16i3.5666

Authors

Mustafa Biçer Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi / Grand National Assembly of Turkey http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3655-0907

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14687/jhs.v16i3.5666

Keywords:

Turkish presidential government system, political representation, political accountability, governmental systems, 2017 constitutional amendment

Abstract

Turkey changed its 1982 Constitution and adopted a presidential form of government in 2017. This constitutional amendment changed the approval of the budget radically. Along with that, debates may arise in terms of political responsibility for not approved the budget by the Parliament, how the budget will accepted when the president and majority of the Parliament are from different party, and there is not any mechanism being in classical presidential system as public account committee to enhance parliamentary supervision over the executive branch.

In this study,

- we deliberate the concept of political power in representative democracy in terms of public decision-making and resource allocation process and then we analyze the existing political oversight role of Turkish Parliament over the public finance on the basis of democratic legitimacy of public decision-making process and political accountability.

- we focus on oversight role of Turkish Parliament over the public finance at the point of using "power of purse after the Constitutional Amendment adopted on April 16, 2017. Within the context of this analysis, the new constitutional structure of Parliament's budget approval and audit process in Turkish Parliament was evaluated.

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Author Biography

Mustafa Biçer, Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi / Grand National Assembly of Turkey

Mr. BİÇER is a Deputy Director (Legislative Expert) at Grand National Assembly of Turkey- GNAT since 1997 (22 years). He graduated from Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Political Science and Public Administration Department. Currently, he has a Ph.D. decree on public finance from Ankara University Department of Public Finance. His research interests are fiscal policy, public financial management system, public policy-making process and sectoral budgeting (Gender, Child, education vb.).

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