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Item Open Access How to weather the storm: a comparative case study on populist trajectorıes to COVID-19 pandemic(Bilkent University, 2021-07) Güllüoğlu, Tümay H.Why populist leaders have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic differently? This thesis addresses this question through a paired comparison of Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey. These three countries, despite being similar, have employed unique responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The cases are explained based on two sets of indicators. First, the national indicators address the overall conduct within the case where vaccination efforts, closures, quarantines, local and national policies are assessed. The second set of indicators address the leaders’ attitude, their recognition of the seriousness of the pandemic, and assess their populist tendencies during the crisis. Crisis management, populism, and recently emerging COVID-19 politics literature have been used alongside articles in media to trace the change in the policies and leaders’ evolving discourses. These changes are explained through three factors: the left-right continuum, social aid capabilities, and opposition strength. After the analyses, the thesis suggests new terms for unique trajectories. Adversarial denialism for Brazil indicates an environment where during the downplaying of the pandemic, efforts of other parties are demonized. Defective inclusionism for Mexico denotes a setting where the leader gradually defects his denialistic positions after popular pressure while failing to provide inclusionist policies. Partisan affirmation for Turkey signifies a monopolization of the conduct where efforts of others are systemically prevented.Item Restricted İnsanların aklında donakalan 1987 İstanbul kışı(Bilkent University, 2022) Gök, Azra; Açıkalın, Kamile Elif; Yılmaz, Şerife; Ceyhan, Gökdeniz; Tokat, Selimhanİstanbul’da yakın tarihte birçok doğal afet niteliğinde kar fırtınaları yaşanmıştır. 1929 ve 1954 yıllarında yaşanan kar fırtınaları hayatı derinden etkilemiştir. İstanbul şehir yönetimi, yaşanan krizi ele alarak temel hizmetleri insanlara sağlamaya çalışmıştır. Bu çalışmada, 1987 senesinde yaşanan kar fırtınası o dönemde İstanbul’da ikamet eden insanlarla yapılan röportajların, gazete haberlerinin ışığında ele alınmıştır. Kar fırtınası meteorologlar tarafından tahmin edilememiş ve medyada yağış öncesinde kayda değer yer bulamamıştır. On beş gün süren yağışın etkileri bir ay boyunca halk tarafından ekonomi, ulaşım, lojistik, eğitim, insan ve spor alanlarında hissedilmiştir. İnsan psikolojisini de göz ardı edilemeyecek şekilde etkilemiştir. Günümüzde yaşanan ekstrem kar fırtınalarını ve krizin nasıl yönetildiğini anlamak için 1987 Kar fırtınası önemli bir yer taşımaktadır.Item Open Access Market reaction to risky banks: did generous deposit guarantee change it?(Pergamon Press, 2008) Önder, Z.; Özyildirim, S.Turkey experienced a massive banking crisis in February 2001, resulting in the loss of more than a thousand managerial jobs and the closure of 21% of all bank branches in the market. In this paper, we study the behavior of the market and the banks in Turkey before the crisis, from 1988 to 2000, which includes the period of full deposit insurance. The empirical results showed that not only depositors but also borrowers reacted negatively to risky banks and punished them even more during the period of generous government guarantee. However, in the same period, banks were found to increase their moral hazard behavior significantly. Although the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank recommend explicit deposit insurance for developing countries, the findings of this paper suggest that deposit insurance may not be an effective policy tool to improve market confidence, and it does not guarantee a stable economic environment even when the market reacts negatively to the moral hazard behavior of banks.Item Open Access The politics of austerity and public policy reform in the EU(Sage Publications Ltd., 2014-04-07) Ladi, S.; Tsarouhas D.The European Union (EU) is at a critical juncture that will either trigger further integration or reinforce a mode of intergovernmental cooperation. The spread of market pressure to a growing number of states demonstrates that the crisis needs to be dealt with at the European and not just the national level. Up to now the 'politics of extreme austerity' has been the mainstream recipe promoted to and adopted by member states. The measures are tougher in those countries where there has been external financial assistance (i.e. Greece, Portugal and Ireland) but the rest of Europe is following suit (e.g. Italy and the UK). This introduction outlines the key directions of EU reforms to put into context the more specific cases discussed elsewhere in this symposium. The strengths and weaknesses of the theoretical frameworks employed in the articles are discussed to demonstrate the lessons that the crisis offers for our well-established public policy models and to highlight avenues for further research. Two main arguments are advanced: first, the crisis calls for an interdisciplinary approach to comprehend its full extent and deal with it efficiently; and second, the current political trajectory of the EU calls for urgent changes to strengthen its cohesion and long-term viability.