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Item Open Access Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları'nda anlatıcı sorunsalı(Bilkent University, 2004) Gözcü, SevimAs a writer who witnessed the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, Memduh Şevket Esendal (1884-1952) rose to prominence as the author of Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları (Ayaşlı and His Tenants), which is considered one of the most important novels of the Republican era in Turkish literature. The novel, after being serialized in the newspaper Vakit, was published in book form in 1934. Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları attracted the attention of many writers and critics after it won the fifth place in the Novel Competition of Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (the Republican Party) in 1942. So far, appraisals of it have been centered on its usage of plain language and its accurate reflection of societal transformation during the early Republican period. However, the position of the narrator, which is highly decisive in shaping the novel, has been scarcely explored in criticism. In this thesis, the function of the narrator as a character will be analyzed in terms of his cultural distinction, class position, and narrative practices. In the novel, a bank officer writes his memories about the people he has lived with and the events he has witnessed in the nine-room flat of an apartment building. The narrator, who writes his memories in a seemingly sincere manner, as he comes to know the other tenants more closely, starts to feel uneasy about living in this place, a kind of boarding house. As the story develops the narrator introduces and scrutinizes many new characters, but at the same time, these characters begin to reveal their serious ethical shortcomings. Throughout the novel the narrator witnesses the moral deterioration of the environment which is rampant with drug addiction, gambling, material greed, gossip, selfishness, irresponsibility, and a general lack of love and care. Characters such as unfaithful couples and neglected children present an atmosphere that is unacceptable to ordinary citizens and average readers. On the other hand, it is understood upon close examination that the narrator himself epitomizes the hard-working, honest, and respectable citizen with egalitarian values. Among the people of questionable moral standards he stands out as a high bureaucrat and intellectual. The occasion of his happy and respectable marriage towards the end of the novel once again underscores his difference from the other tenants and the values they represent. The narrator mainly employs two narrative strategies throughout the novel. Firstly, he presents his world ostensibly as a passive spectator. Secondly, he presents a critique of this world without excessively accentuating his different value system. Therefore, he gives the impression that he is not imposing any value judgments upon his fellow tenants, who are in fact characters created by him. He tries to persuade the reader that he is in fact objective and acquiescent. Thus, a close examination of the narrative construction of the novel brings to light the difference between the narrator and the other people boarding the apartment house in terms of ethical standpoint and cultural status.Item Open Access Bureaucratization(SAGE Publications, Inc., 2004) Winter, Thomas; Carroll, Bret E.Bureaucracy, or bureaucratization, refers to routinized, deper-sonalized, and dispersed processes devoted to the execution of a variety of administrative tasks, and to the regulation and assessment of these tasks. Within a bureaucratic system of governance, authority is dispersed and disconnected from ownership or physical production. Notions of a “bureaucratic manhood,” or a “bureaucratic team player,” slowly began to appear in U.S. society as bureaucratic systems of governance and administration emerged after 1830. This development enabled men to articulate masculine power and authority out-side the contexts of craft skills (which were slowly displaced by industrialization after 1830) and ownership and entrepreneurial control (which were transformed by corporatization after 1880). In addition, a mode of bureaucratic manhood gained ground after 1880 that linked masculinity to the exerciseItem Restricted Item Restricted Füsun Koroğlu Çorapçıoğlu(Bilkent University, 2021) Öner, Nihan; Kumbaracı, İdil Beste; Canbolat, İrem; Sural, Kardelen; Kuday, Safa Eren1953 yılında Ankara’da doğan Füsun Koroğlu eğitimini Ankara’da tamamlamıştır. Eğitimine, liseden itibaren kazandığı burslar ile devam etmiş ve aldığı burs üniversite tercihinde belirleyici etken olmuştur. Eczacılık ve Jeoloji Mühendisliği eğitimi almıştır. DSP ve MHP’den milletvekili adayı olmuş, 1997 ve 2002 yılları arasında başbakanlık müsteşar yardımcılığı yaptıktan sonra 57. Koalisyon Cumhuriyet Hükümeti’nde başbakanlık müsteşarlığı yapmıştır. Bu görev ile Türkiye Cumhuriyeti tarihinde bir ilki yaşamış ve bir kadın olarak bu göreve atanmıştır. Füsun Koroğlu, halen bir ecza deposunun mesul müdürü olarak çalışmaktadır. Yavuz Çorapçıoğlu ile evli olup, ABD’de yaşayan, üniversite öğrencisi bir oğlu vardır.Item Open Access Governments vs states: decoding dual governance in the developing world(Routledge, 2010) Aydinli, E.This article begins by questioning the transferability of Western conceptualisations of the 'state' to the developing world, particularly to those areas in which security concerns are extreme. It proposes that the complicated relationship between security and political liberalisation produces a reform- security dilemma, which in turn may result in dual-governance structures consisting of an autonomous 'state' bureaucracy and a relatively newer, political 'government'. The dynamics of such a duality are explored through a longitudinal comparison of two critical cases: Iran and Turkey. Both cases reveal evidence of the 'state' and 'government' as distinct bodies, emerging over time in response to conflicting pressures for security and liberalisation. While the Iranian case remains entrenched in a static duality with an advantaged 'state', the Turkish case provides optimism that, under certain conditions, an eventual subordination of the state to the political government can take place.Item Open Access Intermediaries and corruption(Elsevier BV, 2008) Hasker, K.; Okten, C.Surveys of businessmen and anecdotal evidence blame intermediary agents (middlemen hired by corporations and individuals) for increasing corruption in the developing world. Although this problem has gained the attention of policy makers, there has been little formal analysis of it in the economics literature. In a game theoretic model analyzing the interaction between clients, public official and intermediary agents, we find that intermediary agents worsen the impact of corruption and that traditional methods of fighting corruption can actually increase corruption in the presence of intermediary agents. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Item Open Access The political economy of Kulturkampf: evidence from imperial Prussia and republican Turkey(Springer New York LLC, 2018) Grigoriadis, Ioannis N.; Grigoriadis, T. N.This paper analyzes the political incentives of Kulturkampf and the implementation of secularization in imperial Prussia and republican Turkey. A game-theoretic model defining Kulturkampf as a static game between priests and the executive is proposed. The willingness of priests to accept the government’s offer and be transformed into bureaucratic experts varies. Individualist priests are easier to recruit as they care more about their personal welfare than social distribution by the church, whereas the reverse holds for collectivist priests. Nevertheless, the long-run success of the Kulturkampf depends on the effective recruitment of collectivist priests and their entry into formal politics in favor of the executive.Item Open Access Politics and the bureaucracy in policy making process: a general framework and its application to the Turkish case(Bilkent University, 1996) Gürgür, TuğrulThe aim of this Master Thesis is to construct a framework to analyze interactions between politics, society, and the bureaucracy with each other. This framework is then adapted to the Turkish case to model policy making mechanisms in economic issues. When the bureaucracy emerges as a separate actor in the political field, the relationship between political actors and the society significantly changes. It may mitigate the problems observed in this relationship by providing an information and commitment mechanism or it may lead to a new set of problems. Unless politicians are able to 'discipline' the civil service, they cannot govern the state. The furkish case is an example of how participation of the bureaucracy to the relationship between politics and society affects economic variables.Item Restricted Türk Dış Ticaret Vakfı kuruluşu ve faaliyetleri(Bilkent University, 2019) Biber, Elif; Şahin, İmge; Karabacak, Nida; Akyol, Nur Sima; Metin, Şevval GülhanSanayileşme süreciyle birlikte Türkiye Cumhuriyeti içerisinde çeşitli iş alanlarında dış ticarete yoğun bir yönelme olmuş ve bunun sonucunda ortaya çıkan ihtiyaçlara cevap vermek ve olası problemlere çözüm üretmek için Türk iş insanları farklı çözüm yollarına gitmiştir. Dış ticaret konusunda her türlü bilgi ve tecrübeyi bir arada toplamak ve bu sayede Türk iş insanlarının çalışma alanlarını arttırmak amacıyla Türk Dışticaret Vakfı (TDV) kurulmuştur. Bu ödev kapsamında TDV’nin kuruluş öyküsü, vakfın kurulma amacı ve faaliyetleri incelenecektir. Vakfın kuruluş öyküsü incelenirken kurucu profili ve vakfın ortaya çıkış nedenleri ele alınacaktır. Vakfın faaliyetleri incelenirken ise vakfın eğitim programı, yayınları, kütüphanesi ve düzenlediği kurultaylar değerlendirilecektir.