The Europeanization of Candidate States

This paper investigates the way in which the public administration in Turkey has modified its organization and modes of action under the influence of the European integration process. The paper focuses on Turkish ministries in order to examine this impact at three levels: inter-organizational (macro-administrative scale), intra-organizational (meso-administrative scale), and human resources (micro-administrative scale). It highlights the impact of European integration processes on the modes of action of Turkish ministries so as to illustrate more concretely the effects of Europeanization on their ways of operating. While the implementation of European integration processes has created new styles and modes of action within each administration, it has also contributed to the emergence in the Turkish administrative sphere of shared governance in European policy.