Distributive politics and regional development: assessing the territorial distribution of Turkey’s public investment

Turkey is often perceived as a country with low bureaucratic capacity and prone to political manipulation and ‘pork-barrel’. This article tests whether this is the case, by analysing the extent to which politics, rather than equity and efficiency criteria, have determined the geographical allocation of public investment across the 81 provinces of Turkey between 2005 and 2012. The results show that although the Turkish government has indeed channelled public expenditures to reward its core constituencies, socioeconomic factors remained the most relevant predictors of investment. Moreover, in contrast to official regional development policy principles, we uncover the concentration of public investment in areas with comparatively higher levels of development. We interpret this as the state bureaucracy’s intentional strategy of focussing on efficiency by concentrating resources on ‘the better off among the most in need’

DENİZLİ İLİ AKARSULARINDA YAYILIM GÖSTEREN BALIK TÜRLERİ ve BÖLGEDEKİ DAĞILIMLARI

In this study, the freshwater fish of streams in Denizli province and their distribution was researched. Research was carried out in total 24 station between July-August 2003. Electroshocker was used in sampling activities. The samples, which was caught through sampling activities, had been brought to the Eğirdir Fisheries Research Institue and species identification was determined according to metric and meristic characteristics in the laboratories of our institute and Aegean University, Fisheries Faculty, Department of Basic Sciences. As a result of this activities, 17 taxa belonging to 9 families were determined. Gasterosteus aculeatus are recorded for the first time from this province.Bu çalışmada Denizli ili akarsularında yayılış gösteren balık türleri ve bölgedeki dağılımları incelenmiştir. Araştırma 2003 yılı Temmuz-Ağustos ayları arasında toplam 24 istasyonda gerçekleştirilmiştir. Örneklemelerde elektroşoker kullanılmıştır. Örneklemeler sonucunda elde edilen numuneler Eğirdir Su Ürünleri Araştırma Enstitüsü Müdürlüğü'ne getirilmiş, tür teşhisleri enstitümüz ve Ege Üniversitesi Su Ürünleri Fakültesi Temel Bilimler Bölümü İçsular biyolojisi laboratuarlarında metrik ve meristik özelliklerine göre yapılmıştır. Yapılan çalışmalar sonucunda 9 familyaya ait 17 takson belirlenmiştir. Cyprinidae familyasının tür çeşitliliği açısından bölgenin en baskın populasyonu olduğu belirlenmiştir. Gasterosteus aculeatus türü bölgeden ilk defa bildirilmektedi