Browsing Theses - Department of Political Science and Public Administration by Title
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Against its modernist grounds: rethinking clientelism
(Bilkent University, 2001)This thesis is an attempt to highlight an arbitrariness and vagueness in the academic usage of the concept of clientelism. It is argued that these deficiencies in the usage of the concept arise from a bias inherent to ... -
An analysis on the contribution of civil society to democratic consolidation in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2007)This is an analysis on the contribution of civil society to democratic consolidation in Turkey. This thesis will try to understand this problematic by assessing the civil society’s formal structure, legal framework, ... -
Analyzing the early republican ideology with specific reference to the Turkish literature : 1930-1945
(Bilkent University, 2000)Having taken for granted that there exists a certain but nonlinear relation between political ideology and literature, this thesis seeks to trace the early republican political project vis a vis development of the Turkish ... -
The appeal of social capital: analyzing the conceptualization of the concept
(Bilkent University, 2018-06)This thesis aims to make an analysis of conceptualization and operationalization of the concept of ‘social capital’ in the social sciences. Therefore, this thesis looks for answers to the questions such as why the ... -
Articulating socialism with nationalism : a critical analysis of nationalism in the Turkish leftist tradition in the 1960s
(Bilkent University, 2010)In this dissertation, it is argued that nationalism was one of the most important characteristics of the socialist movement in Turkey in the 1960s. When we look at the socialist movement in Turkey in this period, we ... -
Beyond the culturalization of the headscarf : women with headscarves in retail jobs in 2000s Turkey
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Bipolar disorder : "The West and the Rest"
(Bilkent University, 2002)he current ‘War on Terror’ has revitalized the language of friends and enemies, us and them, good and evil. The whole world has been forced to choose sides: are you with the terrorists or are you with the ‘freedom loving ... -
Bülent Ecevit : continuity and change in his political views
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Bülent Ecevit as a political leader
(Bilkent University, 1998)The objective of this-thesis is to analyze the importance and necessity of the effective leadership in politics in general and in Turkey in particular. In doing so, the thesis provides a theoretical framework of 'leadership' ... -
A case in diaspora nationalism : Crimean Tatars in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2000)"Diaspora", an old phenomenon, signifying dispersed people outside their homeland, who sustain their ties with their homeland and their co-ethnics, highly mobilized in politics in recent years, certainly in a new form. ... -
The case of Youth Party in the context of post-80 Turkish politics
(Bilkent University, 2003)The fundamental purpose of this thesis is to understand the birth and rise of Youth Party (YP) and its political stance. In order to achive this task, the transformation process of Turkish politics in the post-80 era ... -
Celal Bayar and political leadership, 1937-1960
(Bilkent University, 2013)This dissertation sets its objective as studying Celal Bayar‟s leadership from 1937 to 1960 in order to present the portrait of Bayar as a political leader. The interactive approach is employed to structure this analysis. ... -
The changing nature of Islamism in Turkey : a comparison of Erbakan and Erdoğan
(Bilkent University, 2002)The present study discusses the impact of the general change with the rise of new tendencies in Turkish politics on Islamist groups. The main purpose in writing this thesis is that of investigating the differences and ... -
Children's picture book and fairy tales in Turkey: a study in political socialization
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The citizen of the state and the state of the citizen : an analysis of the citizenization process in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2000)This study deals with the construction and evolution of Turkish citizenship throughout the history of the Turkish Republic. How citizenship was defined, and which model was adopted for Turkish citizenship are the major ... -
Citizenship, minorities and immigrants : a comparison of Turkey's Jewish minority and Turkish-Jewish immigrants in Israel
(Bilkent University, 2004)This study investigated the legal status, identity and civic virtue aspects of citizenship and the interaction between them on the layers of international migration and minority issues with use of a comparative case. A ... -
Civil society and democratic consolidation : the case of TUSIAD
(Bilkent University, 2002)This thesis questions the relationship between civil society and democratic consolidation. By referring to the development of the concept of civil society and civil society organizations in Turkey, this study focuses on ... -
Civilizing process from above: culture and state in Turkey, 1923-1945
(Bilkent University, 2000)This dissertation deals with the formation of the official notion of culture during the early Republican era (1923-1945) from a historico-political perspective. This formation reflected the civilizing process from above, ... -
The Closure of the political as a problem of democracy : a critique on democratic thought in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2009)This thesis examines the analysis of Turkish politics in the works of three key social scientists in Turkey: Niyazi Berkes, #erif Mardin and Metin Heper. Berkes’s account on the development of secularism in Turkey, ...
