Theses - Department of Political Science and Public Administration: Recent submissions
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Critical discourse analysis of tweets and entries of dissidents in Turkey: the irresistible lure of voting
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)Turkey had 12 major political elections in last 10 years. Such intensive election environment had profound impacts on voters. Especially after the elections conducted in 2018 and 2019 many dissident voters first stated on ... -
Structural constraints and choice in monetary policy regime design: Bosnia and Kosovo in comparative perspective
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)This thesis analyses Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo in a comparative perspective using the classic method of Most Similar Systems Design by assessing the extent and nature of change in the two states’ monetary policy ... -
A modernization project in a neoliberal urban setting: municipal statues of Eskişehir
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)This thesis studies a municipally orchestrated modernization project in the city of Eskişehir, Turkey, in parallel to neoliberal urban trends. Showing the post-industrial characteristics of a neoliberal urban scene, ... -
The ludic production of space: gamification and spatial experience
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)This thesis traces the changes in the spatiality of play with a focus on conceptual and structural transformations play has undergone in the modern times. These transformations lead to the dissolution of the boundaries ... -
Strategizing citizenship: Turkish immigrants in Amsterdam
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)This thesis aims to reveal the perspectives of Turkish immigrants in Amsterdam on the issue of citizenship, asking about their positions regarding Dutch and Turkish citizenship. The concepts of substantive citizenship ... -
Production of ‘abstract crisis’ and irregular human mobilities
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)This thesis argues that political representation of space as being consisted of territorially bounded states leads to the impulsion to see an uncontrolled movement as risky, and eventually to call the event as crisis. ... -
Alternative dispute resolution mechanisms and compliance in international financial institutions
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)The relationship between compliance, accountability and good governance is important in terms of the mission and role of International Organizations in global order. Although these concepts are closely related to each ... -
Faith and reason in higher education: social scientific study of Islam at Ankara University School of Divinity
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the mektep-madrasa controversy is manifested in Ankara University School of Divinity as a divide between those who see the study and teaching of Islam as a religion, and those ... -
The study of militarism: English-speaking world scholarship and Turkey’s scholarship compared
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Militarism has attracted academic attention since late seventeenth century. Scholars have defined and studied militarism in different ways. While during the First World War, militarism was studied as an ideology, in the ... -
Political economy of energy sector restructuring in the post-soviet space: Russia and Azerbaijan in comparative perspective
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)This dissertation explores the political economy of energy sector restructuring in the post-Soviet space with a particular focus on the role of elite structure therein. After remaining under the same Communist regime for ... -
Standing under metaphors of power: Ankara city gates
(Bilkent University, 2019-07)This thesis examines Ankara City Gates in terms of how they metaphorically reproduce a mode of subjecthood, a cultural citizenship corresponding to the understanding of citizenship of the AKP and the state, of which Melih ... -
Exploring recipes for higher female labour force participation in Turkey: insights from Southern Europe with a qualitative comparative analysis
(Bilkent University, 2019-04)Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece achieved remarkable increases in their FLFP rates as of the 1980s. Turkey, however, experienced constant decline for decades, and is still featuring sluggish rates. With such sluggish ... -
Reconsidering hybridity : the selective use of international norms in Turkey’s resolution/peace process
(Bilkent University, 2019-01)This study examines the diffusion of international peacebuilding norms in the case of Turkey’s resolution/peace process for solving the Kurdish issue (2009-2015) as a case of peace process in the absence of top-down ... -
State actors and the effects of international crisis on asylum policy in Canada and Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2019-01)Over the last 25 years, the literature suggests that asylum policies in industrialized countries have become increasingly restrictive and selective. Although there is academic debate, particularly in connection with security ... -
Securitizaton of migration: the case of the Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran
(Bilkent University, 2018-10)Based on security studies literature, this dissertation examines securitization of migration and Afghan refugees in the Islamic Republic of Iran between 1979 and the present day. The main argument of the dissertation is ... -
Small states in the European Union: political representation in the European parliament and the council of the European Union
(Bilkent University, 2018-09)The 2004 Enlargement of the European Union marked an important development within the institutional history of the European Union with the participation of eight Central and Eastern European and two island states. The ... -
Deliberating in difficult times: lessons from public forums in Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2018-09)This dissertation examines how under semi-authoritarian political contexts and fragmented social structure public deliberation function, by in-depth analysis of three Public Park Forums in İzmir which were created during ... -
Revisiting the British Idealist theory of rights: the younger generation of British Idealists and their internationalist approach to human rights
(Bilkent University, 2018-09)This dissertation aims to put forward a historical account of the younger generation of British Idealists’ approach to international relations and human rights. By focusing on pre-Great War and post-Great War periods it ... -
The alla franca dandies: modern individuality in the late 19th century Ottoman novels
(Bilkent University, 2018-09)The thesis studies the Hamidian regime (1876-1909) of the Ottoman Empire with regard to the relations between Ottoman modernization, Westernization and the proto-individualism that was then taking roots without the concomitant ... -
Local peoples’ perceptions on Syrian refugees in Turkey: the case of ‘gün’ groups
(Bilkent University, 2018-08)This study mainly investigates the perceptions on Syrian refugees in Turkey, as one of the host countries. It does so by focusing on the case of the perceptions of the local population in Mersin, a city which received a ...
