Information Package / Course Catalogue
State and Bureaucracy Theories I
Course Code: KAY429
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

The aim of the course is to evaluate the development of social organization forms and their administrative features by considering them together with economic, social and political conditions, and to reveal the emergence of the mondern state together with its historical stages.

Course Content

The development of humanity's forms of social organization, economic and social organization in the ancient period, production relations and organizational structure of the feudal period, absolute monarchies, nationalization and bureaucracy, the French Revolution and the institutionalization process of the modern capitalist nation state

Name of Lecturer(s)
Lec. Murat YILMAZ
Learning Outcomes
1.Students will have knowledge about the forms of organization of humanity
2.Students develop a method of reasoning about the imagination of the state
3.Students comprehend the relationship between relations of production and forms of organization
4.Students will have knowledge about the idea of the state from antiquity to the modern state
5.Students learn the development of the modern state
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Kemali Saybaşılı, Siyaset Biliminde Temel Yaklaşımlar, Doruk Yayınevi, 1999
2.Kurthan Fişek, Yönetim
3.Birgül Ayman Güler, Devlet Bilimi, 2023
4.Cem Eroğul, Devlet Nedir?, İmge Yayınevi, 1990
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Course methodology and introduction
Week 2 - Theoretical
What is the state? How should it be imagined?
Week 3 - Theoretical
Anthropological explanation of the origin of the state
Week 4 - Theoretical
Anthropological explanation of the origin of the state
Week 5 - Theoretical
Economic and social organization and the idea of the state in antiquity: Plato and Aristotle
Week 6 - Theoretical
Economic and social organization and the idea of the state in antiquity: Plato and Aristotle
Week 7 - Intermediate Exam
Midterm Exam
Week 8 - Theoretical
Feudalism, feudal organization and relations of production
Week 9 - Theoretical
Feudalism, feudal organization and relations of production
Week 10 - Theoretical
The state of the transition from feudalism to capitalism: absolute monarchies and their theorization-Hobbes, Machiavelli, Bodin
Week 11 - Theoretical
The state of the transition from feudalism to capitalism: absolute monarchies and their theorization-Hobbes, Machiavelli, Bodin
Week 12 - Theoretical
The Construction of the Modern Nation State and the French Revolution
Week 13 - Theoretical
The Construction of the Modern Nation State and the French Revolution
Week 14 - Theoretical
The post-revolutionary administrative and bureaucratic view of France and Europe
Week 15 - Theoretical
Review
Week 16 - Final Exam
Final Exam
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory141356
Midterm Examination110111
Final Examination110111
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)78
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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OÇ-1
5
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4
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Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026