All rights reservedAkyüz, Zeynep Ceren2024-03-142024-03-142015978-80-01-05782-7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1430Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Definite Space – Fuzzy Responsibility, Prague, 13-16th July, 2015This paper uncovers the main economic, political and social drivers of state rescaling in Turkey through historical and comparative comprehension. It touches upon the transformation of the state and its development trajectories to examine in what ways the triad of local, national, global scopes, along with their main actors, roles and policies evolve. The discussions will provide hints of the evolution of local government structure of Turkey while particularly depicting the position of village administration during the heyday period of metropolitan municipalities and regional formations. For the Turkish case, it is possible to classify the drivers and motivations of rescaling under certain themes which are promotion of democracy, tackling identity issues, fighting corruption, generating economies of scale. More importantly, rescaling notably takes place for its professed close local units to confront uneven development. (Smith, 1986) which could be defined as contradiction.EnglishopenAccessstate rescalingTurkish local administrationvillageconferenceObject2601-2612