Bugüne kadar kamu yönetiminde etik konusu kamu hizmetini arz eden kesim olan kamu görevlilerine getirilen kurallar ya da kamu görevlilerinin davranışları kapsamında ele alınmıştır.

Elinizdeki kitap ise kamu yönetiminde etik konusunda farklı bir bakış açısı getirme yönünde atılan bir adım niteliğindedir.

Bilindiği üzere kamu hizmetinden yararlananlar da zaman zaman etik dışı davranışlarda bulunmaktadır. Hizmetten yararlananların ne tür etik dışı davranışlarda bulunduğu ve bu davranışların hangi değişkenlere göre farklılık gösterdiği bu kitapta saha araştırması yoluyla incelenmiştir. Buradan elde edilen veriler ışığında kamu yönetimi literatüründe ilk defa kamu hizmetinden yararlananların etik davranış ilkeleri kavramına değinilmiştir.

Kamu görevlilerine göre hizmetten yararlananlar ne tür etik dışı davranışlarda bulunmaktadır? Hizmetten yararlananlar kamu kurumlarında hangi etik dışı durumlardan rahatsız olmaktadır?

Etik dışı davranışlar hangi yaş, eğitim ve gelir gruplarına sahip bireylerde yoğunlaşmaktadır?

Kamu kurumlarında hediye verme, sıra beklememe, bağış yapma, siyasetçi, iş takipçisi, tanıdık ya da akraba ile öncelikli hizmet talep etme ve kamu görevlisine kaba davranma gibi davranışlarda bulunulmakta mıdır?

Bu soruların cevaplarını da bulabileceğiniz kitap, kamu yönetiminde etik konusuna ilgi duyan ve bu konuda araştırma yapan herkese büyük katkılar sağlayarak faydalı olacaktır.

This book is about economic growth and development through a new way of analysis. It is a research that explains many phenomena seen in the growth process such as productivity, economic stagnation, under-investment, ineffectiveness of foreign aid, wage trends, factor flows and concentrations, technology adoption, and convergence by “relational analysis”.

Relational analysis is a general alternative analysis that focuses on the relationships between factors and uses their vital consequences to extract knowledge rather than ignore them artificially and fatally. It emphasizes that there are important interrelationships between factors such as complementarity, substitution, embodiment, directing, input-output, and facilitation. Taking into account the relations enable to get more complete and accurate answers to important questions, especially in applied works that require real predictions such as forecasting and policy formulation. The analysis can be fruitfully applied in any field, and as the growth analysis shows it fundamentally enriches the ideas, and protect from misleading assumptions.

In the book the readers will find:

– Origins and alternative definitions of complementarity and substitutions,

– Eleven implications of these relationships for economic growth and development,

– Many explanations and references for inferences regarding growth accounting, poverty traps and thresholds, multiple eqilibria, obsolescence, financial development, growth accelerations, imitations and barriers, and empirical anaysis.

The book is for anyone looking for an alternative way to learn about the basics of the growth process. Researchers, students, and staffs at universities and research institutions and other social scientists in government, business, international organizations should greatly benefit from reading the book.

Economic cybercrime is one of the unwelcomed consequences of unprecedented intrusion of the Internet in our daily lives. Academic interest in understanding the causes and adverse impacts of cybercrime is growing. Opportunity perspective, which perceives individuals’ daily routines and lifestyles as the primary facilitator of victimization, has been widely applied as a theoretical and conceptual framework in cybercrime victimization research. However, this approach put the responsibility of the victimization on victims explicitly, which hampers the application of crime prevention and reduction efforts. This book presents the Contextual Vulnerabilities approach based on the significant findings of a doctoral study conducted at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Contextual vulnerabilities approach posits that cybercrime victimization is the outcome of the confluence of contextual factors that are mostly beyond victims’ control. This approach presumes that controlling individual (micro-level), macro-level and socio-cultural vulnerabilities may prevent cybercrime victimization. Though the preliminary goal of this book is to provide a new theoretical perspective to scholars researching victimization in cyberspace, I hope the wider audience would find it informative.