CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Özgül, Mahur |
|---|---|
| Title | Capacity Building or Resource Dependence: The Effect of Foreign Aid on the Power Dynamics of Turkish Civil Society |
| Summary | The Syrian refugee flow has been an unprecedented event in the history of the Turkish migration regime. Civil society organizations and local NGOs have been important bodies in assisting Syrian refugees. With the help of large amounts of foreign funding. This thesis evaluates the impact of foreign funding to local NGOs in Turkey, and examines the positive and negative effects of foreign aid, and how has this aid effected the operation of Turkish local NGOs?” It approaches the subject from a liberal perspective of civil society and critical foreign aid theory as a theoretical framework. This thesis is a single country case study and uses in depth interviewing as a data gathering technique. This thesis argues that although foreign aid has contributed to the empowerment of local NGOs, it has not granted them the necessary political power to act as a mediatory body between the state and society; and although foreign funding is an important capacity builder it also has had negative effects such as resource dependence and over bureaucratization. |
| Supervisor | Sata, Robert |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/ozgul_mahur.pdf |
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