The aim of this course is to train individuals who are equipped with the knowledge and skills to evaluate the financial structures, income and expenditure elements, budgeting processes and financial control mechanisms of local governments that are outside the central government and provide public services at the local level within an analytical framework. Students are expected to grasp the relationship between the financial autonomy of local governments and public finance; to analyze the economic, political and administrative dimensions of financial decentralization; and to examine the effectiveness and justice of local governments' revenue sources with a critical perspective. In this context, the course aims to provide students with theoretical knowledge and practical competence at a level where they can discuss the problems encountered by local financial structures in Türkiye and other countries comparatively, the implemented reforms and solution proposals within the framework of good governance principles.

Central and local government, local administrations reason being, the structure of the relationships between governments, administrations, division of tasks between the income and the Turkish local authorities, municipalities, special provincial administrations, local administrations, problems and solutions.