Turkish Studies International Periodical For The Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 10/2 Winter 2015, p. 611-630 DOI Number: http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.7535 ISSN: 1308-2140, ANKARA-TURKEY THE EFFECT OF PERCEIVED SERVICE EFFICIENCY, PRODUCTIVITY, PARTICIPATION AND ECONOMIC-PHYSICAL SUFFICIENCY ON THE ATTITUDES AGAINST MUNICIPAL AMALGAMATION * Rüveyda KIZILBOĞA ÖZASLAN ** Hüsniye AKILLI *** Kamil ÖZASLAN **** STRUCTURED ABSTRACT The local government reforms of the last decade in Turkey resulted in continuous growth, expansion, and rescaling of larger municipalities in favor of larger administrative units. With the latest Act No 6360 1 , announced in 2012, there happened to be an important reform regarding local administration which applies to most of the town municipalities in Turkey. 30 special provincial administrations, 1.591 smaller municipalities, and 16.082 villages were dissolved as a result of the expansion of the 30 metropolitan municipalities to provincial borders in 2014. The town municipalities’ current statue as legal entities abated and instead they centralized to district municipalities as neighborhoods showing the reason of economics of scale. The factors of efficiency, productivity, participation and, physical and financial sufficiency, are asserted in relation to the economics of scale while the reforms on the basis of local administration are at stake in Turkey. Furthermore, these factors are presented as the main reasons of administrative transitions in the law’s preambles. It is accepted that these factors are not sufficiently met by the small-sized municipalities so the legal entities of the town municipalities should be transferred as its neighborhoods to bigger municipalities. In other words, it is assumed that the community of the town municipality will be ruled by more participated * Bu makale Crosscheck sistemi tarafından taranmış ve bu sistem sonuçlarına göre orijinal bir makale olduğu tespit edilmiştir. ** Yrd.Doç.Dr., Marmara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi/Yerel Yönetimler Bölümü, ruveyda.kizilboga@gmail.com *** Yrd.Doç.Dr., Nevşehir Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi/Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü, husniyeakilli@nevsehir.edu.tr **** Doktora Öğrencisi, Marmara Üniversitesi Mahalli İdareler ve Yerinden Yönetim Bilim Dalı, kamil.ozaslan@hotmail.com 1 The Law Regarding the Foundation of Twenty Seven Districts and Fourteen New Metropolitan and The Law regarding Changes in Delegated Legislation (Official Gazatte, date: 06.12.2012, number: 28489).