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CAMERALISM: ADMINISTRATIVE PATTERNS DURING THE TRANSITION FROM PATRIMONIAL TO BUREAUCRATIC ADMINISTRATION

Year 2018, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 1 - 20, 20.09.2018

Abstract

Cameralism, which has crucial impact upon the continental European administrative tradition, has
not been widely studied in context of a detailed administrative ground. Patrimonial administration
is characterized by features such as personality, arbitrariness, lack of clarity of the boundaries
between private life and administration and administration was not regarded as a profession based
on expertise. While, bureaucratic administration is based upon the principles of non-personality,
expertise, rationality, predefined impersonal rules. If patrimonial and bureaucratic adminstration
are considered as two poles, cameralism is an approach that has elements from both approaches.
Upon this peculiarity, it provides a framework to understand the development of the bureaucratic
administration. In this article various principles of administration have been evaluated upon
patrimonial and bureaucratic ground and then it is aimed at defining the position of cameralism
by comparing to the two approaches. In some respects cameralism functioned as the remnants
of patrimonal administration while in other respects it had substantially similar peculiarities to
the bureaucratic administration. In this context; the patriomanonial absolutism which allowed
the king to govern personelly with an unbounded authority continued to exist until 1800’s.
However, the acceptance of administration as profession which is carried out by civil servants
and training of those experts started to be practised rather earlier. This article advocates that the
study of Kameralizm through essential principles of administration will provide a meaningful
framework to understand the development and formation of bureaucratic administration. ıt could
also provide a framework for the healthier understanding of the administrative peculiarities in
central and eastern European countries, Russia and Turkey. 

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PATRİMONYAL VE BÜROKRATİK YÖNETİM ARASINDA BİR GEÇİŞ DÖNEMİ YAKLAŞIMI OLARAK KAMERALİZM

Year 2018, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 1 - 20, 20.09.2018

Abstract

Kıta Avrupası için önemli olan Kameralizm yönetim ilkeleri bağlamında maalesef yeterince
çalışılmamıştır. Oysa şahsilik, keyfilik, özel hayat ile yönetim arasındaki sınırlarının belirgin
olmaması, yönetimin uzmanlık üzerine kurulu bir meslek olarak görülmemesi gibi özelliklerle
tanımlanan patrimonyal yönetim ile gayri-şahsilik, uzmanlık, rasyonellik, önceden belirlenen
kişilerüstü kurallar dahilinde yönetim özellikleriyle tanımlanan bürokratik yönetim tarihsel
gelişim sürecinin iki kutbu olarak kabul edilirse kameralizm her iki yaklaşımdan da unsurlar
barındıran ve yönetim biliminin gelişimini anlamamıza katkıda bulunan önemli bir yaklaşımıdır.
Bu makalede yönetimin farklı ilkeleri patrimonyal ve bürokratik çerçevede değerlendirildikten
sonra kameralizmin iki yaklaşım arasındaki konumu belirlenmeye çalışılmıştır. Yöneticinin
yetkilerinin yasalarla belirlenmesi ve gayrişahsilik bağlamında kameralizm 1800lere kadar
patrimonyal mutlakiyetçilik esasında işlemiş olmasına rağmen yönetim faaliyetinin memurlar
tarafından yürütülen bir meslek olarak tanımlanması ve uzman memurların eğitimi bağlamında
oldukça erken tarihlerde bürokratik özellikler taşımaya başlamış olduğu söylenebilir. Bu makale
Kameralizmin farklı yönetim ilkeleri üzerinden çalışılmasının bürokratik yönetimin gelişim ve
şekillenmesini anlamak için anlamlı bir çerçeve sağlayacağı ve günümüzde orta ve doğu Avrupa
ülkeleri, Rusya ve Türkiye deki özgün yönetim kalıplarını daha sağlıklı değerlendirme imkanı
sunacağı tezini savunmaktadır

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Primary Language Turkish
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Doç. Dr. Aziz Tuncer

Publication Date September 20, 2018
Submission Date September 30, 2018
Published in Issue Year 2018 Volume: 1 Issue: 2

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APA Tuncer, D. D. A. (2018). PATRİMONYAL VE BÜROKRATİK YÖNETİM ARASINDA BİR GEÇİŞ DÖNEMİ YAKLAŞIMI OLARAK KAMERALİZM. Journal of Political Administrative and Local Studies, 1(2), 1-20.