Government Budget Culture: The Case of Türkiye

Government budget culture is the set of perceptions, attitudes, and behaviours formed by individuals and society towards the government budget due to the state's practices of balancing social needs and resources in a specific period. The research aims to identify the variables that determine the government budget culture in Türkiye. The research was applied to 1.750 people between the ages of 18 and 65 throughout Türkiye with the questionnaire technique. The variables determining the government budget culture in Türkiye were determined by regression analysis and analysed in three categories: demographic, cultural and socioeconomic variables. As a result of the analyses, it has been found that the perception of government budget culture in Türkiye is low, and solutions have been proposed to increase the perception of government budget culture with the variables determining the government budget culture in Türkiye.