Theses - Department of Political Science and Public Administration: Recent submissions
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Policy networks within the Turkish health sector : capacity, institutionalization and impact
(Bilkent University, 2017-09)Policy networks refer to platforms that facilitate collaboration among public, private and voluntary actors with the purpose of public policy making. Despite the extensive research done on the issue, not much is known about ... -
Turkey and the European Union : other complementary options?
(Bilkent University, 2001-09)Is Turkey’s perception of membership in the European Union (EU) as an ‘ultimate goal’ justified? Are there complementary options supporting Turkey’s membership in the Union? These questions are the focus of the present ... -
Revolution, modernity and the Arab Spring
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)This dissertation critically examines how linguistic and discursive practices in global media discourses devalorize the revolutionary implications of the so called Arab Spring. By using media framing analysis it approaches ... -
Reclaiming the nation, moralizing politics: narratives of political legitimacy in autobiographies of progressive Republican Party leaders
(Bilkent University, 2017-07)In this dissertation, I examine how autobiographical writing becomes a peculiar political space for Kazım Karabekir, Ali Fuat Cebesoy and Rauf Orbay, three major leaders of the Turkish War of Independence and the Progressive ... -
From decline to progress : Ottoman concepts of reform 1600-1876
(Bilkent University, 2017-06)This dissertation aims to analyse the transformation of Ottoman reform debates from the late sixteenth century to 1876 when the first Ottoman constitution was promulgated, by tracing various concepts of reform used in ... -
Theorizing authoritarian party structures : the case of Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2009-11)The existing studies assume or treat an authoritarian party organization as a static and uniform structure, in which national party leaders dominate the party on the ground. Moreover, the extant explanations of authoritarianism ... -
Reflections on the relationship between political theory and political practice: assessing realist challenge to liberal-normative political theory
(Bilkent University, 2017-01)This thesis is a study of value of theorizing for the practical world of politics. It addresses the question of how it is advisable to conceive the relationship between political theory and political practice. It does ... -
Pathways to universal social security in lower income countries : explaining the emergence of welfare states in the developing world
(Bilkent University, 2016-11)Are there welfare states in the developing world? According to conventional wisdom there cannot be. The ‘orthodox model’ of welfare state emergence assumes that only industrialised countries can become welfare states. Yet, ... -
U.S. involvement in military coups d'état in Turkey and Pakistan during the cold war : between conspiracy and reality
(Bilkent University, 2016-12)The external dimension of military coups d’état has hitherto remained an understudied subject in civil-military relations. It has either fallen victim to conspiracies or been entirely sidelined as a non-issue. The objective ... -
The quest for new muslim politics: Turkey since the 1990s
(Bilkent University, 2016-11)This dissertation studies how modern Muslim individuals have changed the trajectory of political Islam in Turkey since the 1990s. This multi-case study, through a sample of students, entrepreneurs, and women, aims at ... -
Columnists as idea entrepreneurs in Turkey, 1983-2007 : conceptions of the state
(Bilkent University, 2016-09)The omnipotence of the state has been a dominant theme of discussions in Turkey for a long time. Though they have been a major party to these discussions due the fact that it was newspapers and periodicals that filled the ... -
Explaining duration of leadership change in Arab uprisings through perceived political opportunity structures : comparing Egypt and Syria
(Bilkent University, 2016-09)Egyptian President Mubarak was forced to leave office after turbulent public protests that lasted eighteen days in 2011. Yet, in the Syrian case, we have currently been witnessing a completely different state of affairs. ... -
Why does Turkey join or avoid joining U.S.-led military coalitions?
(Bilkent University, 2016-09)The US frequently forms coalitions to go to war with other countries and Turkey is one of its many allies asked to contribute to these military coalitions. This thesis aims to reveal why Turkey joins some US-led military ... -
Turgut Özal's views on the relationship between politics and economy
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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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Prevention of irregular migration
(Bilkent University, 2006)People have been moving throughout history. These movements may be either obligatory due to natural disasters, wars and famines or voluntary such as the movements to find more fertile lands or new jobs. The movements ... -
Imagi-nation of gendered nationalism : the represantation of women as gendered national subjects in Ottoman-Turkish novels (1908-1938)
(Bilkent University, 2005)The relation between gender and nationalism has been a controversial issue since the 1980’s when the feminist analyses have brought to light different ways in which women are implicated in nationalist projects. Although ... -
Transformation of Islamist political thought in Turkey from the empire to the early republic (1980-1960) : Necip Fazıl Kısakürek's political ideas
(Bilkent University, 2001)This thesis aims at situating the transformation of Turkish Islamist thought from the Ottoman empire to the early Republic as a case study within the contemporary analyses of Islamism. Islamist thought in Turkey contains ...
