A New Institutional Sustainability Index Regarding Local Governments: The Case of Istanbul

The literature on institutional sustainability has largely focused global-based analysis, and it generally ignored to examine local-based analyses. main purpose of this study was measure the local governments. In research, intention develop an index based district municipalities in province Istanbul, which is one most significant metropolises world. A total 48 variables were used calculation General Institutional Sustainability Index (social dimension with 26 variables, economic 15 environmental 7 variables). consists 3 sub-indexes comprising general index. social examined 6 sub-dimensions, 5 4 sub-dimensions. results indicate that Istanbul achieved low scores. Decision-makers will be able assess for their own observe strong weak aspects sub-indexes. process developing index, missing value cluster principal component composite methods applied data from 39 Istanbul.