ENGELLİ HAKLARINA KAMU YÖNETİMİ TEORİSİ ÇERÇEVESİNDEN BAKMAK (LOOKING AT DISABILITY RIGHTS FROM THE FRAMEWORK OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION THEORY) (original) (raw)

Contemporary discourse accepts disability as a rights matter. There are also many national or international regulations regarding the rights of persons with disabilities. However, even today, the persons with disabilities cannot use their rights adequately, and problems such as unemployment, poverty and ill-treatment continue. The current situation shows that the recognition of certain rights is not enough to use them and solve the problems. Therefore, alternative perspectives and solutions are needed. The new public service approach and the public value theory, which are among the contemporary public administration theories, are two important approaches that can be considered in this context. The biggest deficiency in terms of disability rights is the inability to ensure active and effective participation of disabled people in decision-making processes, policies and public service processes, especially in matters that concern them. The main emphasis of the new public service and public value theory is also related to this issue. Contrary to the understanding of managerial public administration, both approaches accept individuals as citizens, not customers, and emphasize equal and active participation within the framework of democratic processes. It is claimed that this form of participation, which is expressed as co-production, will contribute both to a more effective and efficient public service and to the formation of a public value that will be adopted by the citizens. In this context, co-production emerges as an alternative method that can be used to empower the people with disabilities, to use their rights and to solve their problems. However, the co-production process requires full operation of democracy and the law. At this point, the biggest task falls to the political and administrative decision makers.