Regional development agencies: as an alternative development model

The new models and approaches emerging within the framework of public administration are based upon a ground focusing on effectiveness and efficiency. The main functions of such approaches include quick decision-making and effective troubleshooting. Within this context, the necessity to struggle with the problem of development and develop enduring policies, as well as to grant units organized aside from the central administration with more competence a responsibility and to change the traditional structure of competence-resource range between the central and local administrations has also emerged.Especially, in line with proliferation of democratic culture, changes in the field of increase in the level of welfare and of population etc. have resulted in the difference and increase in terms of necessities and expectancies. As a natural consequence of this, new structures set forth in order to fulfill the local common necessities have become so noteworthy that Regional Development Agencies (RDA) have developed as the institutions targeting to satisfy such a need.This thesis makes a field research as to whether the Regional Development Agencies being established recently in the light of the above-mentioned common framework suggest an alternative development model in terms of Turkey?s development perspective and examines the RDA in this direction.Keywords: Development, Regional Development, Regional Development Agencies.