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Total quality management (TQM) in the Turkish public sector : the views of public employees on practices, impacts and problems for the implementation of TQM in two public organizations
(Bilkent University, 2002)
Total Quality Management (TQM) has become a popular management
approach and system since the 1980s. While it has been adopted by thousands of
organizations, the debate on its originality in theory and its relationship ...
Looking at women's poverty in poor households
(Bilkent University, 2002)
This thesis analyzes the internal dynamics of women’s poverty, and how women
experience and cope with poverty in poor households. It mainly deals with two
points, one regarding the conceptualization of women’s poverty ...
Deterritorialization and the modern state : the case of European integration
(Bilkent University, 2002)
This thesis examines the impact of deterritorialization as an important dimension of
globalization on the contemporary evolution of the modern state. The modern state has
been a territorial phenomenon in the sense it has ...
Turkish conservatism from a comparative perspective
(Bilkent University, 2002)
This thesis serves for the aim of understanding the Turkish conservatism by
making comparative analysis and by focusing on the emergence of conservative
attitudes. This study aimed to examine the role of conservatism in ...
Household survival strategies of the urban poor in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2002)
In this thesis, it is aimed to explore the survival strategies of gecekondu
households living in Turkish cities and their changing aspects by drawing upon a
case study conducted in Ankara. In this respect, migration type, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The 'other(s)' in the discourse of Kemalist women : "sublime womanhood creates the sublime nation"
(Bilkent University, 2002)
This study analyzes the ‘other(s)’ in the discourse of Kemalist women through
a discourse analysis oi Kadin Gazetesi (1947-1979), a woman magazine published by
the Kemalist women. The representation of the inferior and ...
Social and spatial transformations in contemporary metropolises with a focus on the disadvantaged
(Bilkent University, 2002)
The thesis firstly presents a theoretical framework for the space and society
relationship. By following this theoretical framework, it examines the recent social
and spatial transformations in contemporary Western and ...