Browsing Dept. of Political Science and Public Administration - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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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 ... -
Analysis of everyday xenophobia: the case of highly educated Turks with immigrant background in Austria and Germany
(Bilkent University, 2022-11)Xenophobia and racism are contested. They are distinct but overlapping. This study analyses the relationship and interaction between these two concepts and seeks to unpack the true nature of contemporary xenophobia 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, ... -
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
(Bilkent University, 2014)This dissertation studies the roles and meanings of the headscarf in the lives of lower middle class, non-university educated women working in private sector retail jobs. The study critically discusses the extent to which ... -
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 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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
Constructing morality for Turkey : the moral campaign of the 1980s as a novel technique of governing
(Bilkent University, 2010)Political history of Turkey of the 1980s usually narrates the institutional reorganization of state structure and legislative changes introduced by the military regime established after the September 12, 1980 coup d’état ... -
Continuity and change in the ideology of the Nationalist Action Party (MHP), 1965-2015: from Alparslan Türkeş to Devlet Bahçeli
(Bilkent University, 2020-10)This Ph.D. dissertation offers an in-depth, systematic study of the continuities and discontinuities from 1965 to 2015 between the nationalist ideas and practices of Alparslan Türkeş (the founder and first leader of ... -
The Crisis of representation in Southern Europe : Gezi Park protests and 15m movement in comparative perspective
(Bilkent University, 2015)By analysing two different cases of popular movements in Turkey (the Gezi Park protests) and Spain (the 15M movement) that received extensive support from different segments of society in both countries, this research aims ... -
Critical moments of social spatialization in the neighborhood : an alternative reading of the mainstream gecekondu history
(Bilkent University, 2007)This thesis aims to expose an alternative local historical reading of the formation of a gecekondu space as a response to modernist consideration of gecekondu development in Turkey. The social construction of neighborhood ... -
Critique of violence : a study of the relation between politics and violence in some modern political theories
(Bilkent University, 2012)This thesis aims at understanding the relationship between violence and politics in twentieth century political thought. To this end, the study looks at the works of selected thinkers and suggests a threefold categorization ... -
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 ... -
The democrat as a social type : the case of Turkey in the 1990s
(Bilkent University, 2011)The main purpose of this dissertation is the explanation of the emergence of a new social type of political opinion producers in Turkey, namely, "the Democrat", throughout the two decades following the 1980 military coup. ... -
Democratic Party and democracy in Turkey : with special reference to Celal Bayar and Adnan Menderes
(Bilkent University, 2011)This study aims to analyze the conceptualization of democracy by Celal Bayar and Adnan Menderes. Given the basic assumption of this dissertation, which is that ‘political agency’ is the decisive factor for the democratization ... -
Dialogism and democracy
(Bilkent University, 2003)This thesis examines the notion of democracy not as a straightforward political process for decision-making, but as a type of dialogue. One of the main reasons for choosing this particular approach is to reveal the ...
