European Populism and Its Ties with Localism

Year 2019, , 670 - 681, 15.12.2019

Soner Akın , Yakup Bulut

https://doi.org/10.35674/kent.644499

Abstract

Localism is the process
of redistribution or assignment of powers or functions concentrated in a
central place or in a central authority. Today, localism is the allocation of
responsibility, planning and implementation of change from the highest
organizational level closer to the problem or area in which the activities are
carried out. An example is the federal and federal fees that are shared with
state and municipal levels of government. In the process of EU membership, many
constituent powers implemented innovations such as alleviation of statism, populism and centralization,
one of the basic values of previous periods, privatization of state-owned
enterprises, and the establishment of a decentralized government style in state
administration, advocating for conservative, nativist and traditional values at
local, surprisingly in a populist style, promising a rapid economic development
across regionalism, and thus maintained a relatively modern and prosperous
level in integration period. In this study, the displacement of the relations
of power over the localism, which is the return of the said integration
processes, will be explained. The European elections of May 2019 were to be
marked by the rise of populism. In order to approach an optimum ratio, the role
of the urban power networks in the new era in social and administrative terms
was discussed

Keywords

Localism, Populism in Europe, European nativism

Avrupa Popülizmi Ve Yerelcilikle Olan Bağlari

Abstract

Yerelcilik,
merkezi bir yerde veya merkezi bir otoritede yoğunlaşmış güçlerin veya
işlevlerin yeniden dağıtılması veya atanması sürecidir. Günümüzde yerelcilik, idari
faaliyetlerin yürütüldüğü sorun veya bölgeye en yakın örgütsel seviyeden hareketle
sorumluluk dağılımı, planlanması ve uygulanmasıdır. Batıda, eyalet ve belediye
düzeyindeki hükümetlerle paylaşılan federal ve federal ücretler bunun ilk
örneği olmuştur. AB üyeliği sürecinde, pek çok kurucu yetki, devletçiliğin azaltılması nezdinde
popülizm ve merkezileşmenin azalmasıyla, önceki dönemlerin de temel
değerlerinden biri olan devlete ait işletmelerin özelleştirilmesi ve devlet
idaresinde merkezi olmayan bir hükümet tarzının kurulması gibi yenilikler ile
uygulanmıştı. Şimdilerde ise AB’de yerel siyasette, şaşırtıcı bir biçimde popülist
tarzda muhafazakar, yerelci ve geleneksel değerlerin savunuculuğunu savunma
eğilimi artmış; bölgeselcilikte hızlı bir ekonomik gelişmenin peşine düşmek ve
böylece entegrasyon döneminden geri durup nispeten modern ve müreffeh bir
seviyede kalma stratejileri yaygınlık kazanmıştır. Bu çalışmada, AB’de entegrasyon
süreçlerine zıtlık arz eden ve iktidar ilişkilerinin yerelcilik üzerinde yer
değiştirmesi olarak ortaya çıkan bu yeni tutum ve kökenleri araştırılmıştır.
Mayıs 2019’da yapılan Avrupa seçimleri popülizmin yükselişiyle göze çarpmaktadır.
Siyaseten temsilde optimum orana yaklaşmak için, sosyal ve idari açıdan atılan
adımların rolü de burada tartışılmıştır.

Keywords

Yerelleşme, Avrupa’da Popülizm

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