HEPER, Metin

Researcher and writer (b. 1940, İstanbul). He graduated from İstanbul University Faculty of Economics (1963). He received his doctorate at Syracuse University (the United States, 1971). He served as the Director of Public Administration at Boğaziçi University, Faculty of Economics and Commercial Sciences and as a faculty member at Bilkent University (Prof. Dr.) and as the assistant dean.

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Bürokratik Yönetim Geleneği: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Türkiye Cumhuriyetinde Gelişimi ve Niteliği (The Tradition of Bureaucratic Governance: Development and Status in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1974), Türk Kamu Bürokrasisinde Gelenekçilik ve Modernleşme: Siyaset Sosyolojisi Açısından Bir İnceleme (Traditionalism and Modernization in Turkish Public Bureaucracy: A Review from The Perspective of Political Sociology, 1977), Gecekondu Policy in Türkiye an Evaluation With a Case Study of Rumelihisarüstü Satuatter Area in İstanbul (1978), Development Administration in Türkiye: Conceptual Theory and Methodoly (İstanbul, 1980), Türkiye: Post Achievementand Future Prospects (Ankara, 1983), The State Tradition in Türkiye (İngiltere), İslâm and Politics in The Modern Middle East (Londra, 1984), Democracy and Local Goverment: İstanbul 1980's (İngiltere), Dilemmas of Decentralization, Munipical Goverment in Türkiye (Bonn, 1986), The State and Public Busecuecracien: A Comporative Perspective (Newyork ve Londra, 1987), The State, Military and Democracy Türkiye in the 1980 (Berlin, 1988), Local Govermentin Türkiye: Governing Greater İstanbul (Londra, 1989), Modernleşme ve Bürokrasi: Karşılaştırmalı KamuYönetimine Giriş (Modernization and Bureaucracy: Introduction to Comparative Public Administration), İsmet İnönü: Yeni Bir Yorum Denemesi (İsmet İnönü: A New Attempt for Interpretation, English translation by Sermet Yalçın, 1999).