The most important problems that mayors experience and the basic fields were they need information and experience support most

摘要

This study aims to identify the most important problems of mayors who are elected into office, for two tenures or more and to describe the most important needs regarding information and experience for the mayors elected for a second tenure or more in 2009 with regards to type of municipalities and educational variables. For data collection, 2 questions were posed to 1927 mayors and 1341 of mayors replied to the questions. Correspondence analysis was done to reveal the findings. According to the results from this study, some of the information and experience needs constitute problems in the following terms of election and the most frequently experienced problem by municipalities in Turkey is the “lack of information about laws and regulations”.