ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the factors that generate a variation on anti-corruption related change in Turkey across policy sectors. As depicted by empirical evidence, it was the bureaucratic costs and domestic administrative capacity that explain the variation in how well the Europeanisation process has promoted the fight against corruption in the Turkish public sector. In the civil administration, external factors have been largely effective in bringing about legal and administrative changes due to low levels of bureaucratic costs and strong administrative co-ordination. Besides bureaucratic costs, the lack of administrative co-ordination mitigated the impact of legal reforms in practice and resulted in shallow change in public finance management. In public procurement, the Turkish government introduced a new law in 2002. It is important to note that changes in public sector governance to fight corruption are slow and incremental. Therefore, more time is needed to judge the real impact of good governance reforms on the magnitude of corruption in the Turkish public sector.
