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Item Open Access Türkiye’de bireysel kamu politikası kapasitesi: mülki idare amirleri örneği(Türkiye ve Orta Doğu Amme İdaresi Enstitüsü, 2024-06) Çiner, Can Umut; Bölükbaşı, Hasan Tolga; Karakaya, OralKapasite konusu, kamu yönetimi ve kamu politikası alanyazının en önemli konularından biridir. Kamu politikası kapasitesi, sistemsel, örgütsel ve bireysel düzeyde incelenebilir. Bireysel düzeydeki kamu politikası kapasitesi, karar alıcıların bilgi ve beceri kümelerine, dolayısıyla formel ya da enformel eğitim düzey ve içeriklerine dayanmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, kamu politikası kapasitesini geliştirmenin en temel yolu, sorunları çözmekle yükümlü olan kamu yöneticilerinin bilgi ve becerilerinin artırılmasından geçmektedir. Mülki idare amirlerinin kamu politikası kapasitesini saptamayı ve ölçmeyi amaçlayan bu makale, İçişleri Bakanlığı’nın izniyle yürütülen araştırma projesi kapsamında elde edilen özgün verilere dayanmaktadır. Bu kapsamda, mülki idare amirlerinin yanıtlaması için çevrimiçi bir anket hazırlanmıştır. 20.04.2022- 05.05.2022 tarihleri arasında uygulanan ankete o dönemdeki mülki idare amirlerinin % 28,94’ü katılmıştır. Anketin yanı sıra yirmi dokuz mülki idare amiri ile de yüz yüze görüşmeler gerçekleştirilmiş ve bulgular tartışılmıştır. Makale, anket ve görüşme sonuçlarının yanı sıra, mülki idare amirleri için bir tipoloji de ortaya koymuşturItem Open Access Memory makers the politics of the past in Putin's Russia(Routledge, 2024-01-16) Sayar, EgesuItem Open Access Empowering voices: unveiling the dynamics of women's NGOs and state relations in Turkey(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024-11-22) Ertan, Senem; Yol, Fatma; Aykaç, Rojda; Savaş, Gökhan###### *Purpose* This paper aims to examine the gender perceptions of members within women’s NGOs in Türkiye, highlighting the persistence of patriarchal values despite the rise in these organizations. The study provides insights into the influence of socio-political factors and demographic variables on gender attitudes within these organizations. ###### *Design/methodology/approach* The research utilized a survey conducted among 735 members of women’s NGOs in Istanbul and Ankara, gathering quantitative data on their attitudes toward gender inequality. The study employs a gender inequality index, supplemented with demographic and personal factors like age, marital status, education, political ideology and religiosity. ###### *Findings* Findings reveal that members of women’s NGOs often exhibit gender-inequitable attitudes, influenced by factors such as age, religiosity, political ideology and education. Contrary to expectations, these NGOs do not uniformly promote feminist values, and gender inequity is deeply entrenched within the organizational culture. ###### *Research limitations/implications* The study is limited by its focus on two major cities, which may not reflect the experiences of NGO members in other regions of Türkiye. The findings underscore the necessity to address structural constraints within women’s NGOs to promote genuine gender equality. ###### *Practical Implications* This research suggests the need for critical awareness and capacity-building within women’s NGOs in Türkiye. Policymakers and organizational leaders can use these insights to develop targeted interventions that enhance gender consciousness and challenge patriarchal norms in civil society. ###### *Originality/value* This study provides a novel exploration of gender attitudes within women’s NGOs in Türkiye, challenging the assumption that such organizations inherently promote feminist ideals. By combining empirical data with a socio-political analysis, the research reveals how entrenched patriarchal values persist within organizations that advocate for gender equality. This work contributes to understanding the complexities and contradictions in civil society’s role in gender politics, offering valuable insights for scholars and practitioners interested in gender, civil society and socio-political dynamics in Türkiye.Item Open Access What does “living alone” mean? exploring the practices of solo-living(Routledge, 2025-01-07) Karakayalı, Nedim; Azizoğlu, CemreThe article sheds critical light on recent studies that associate living alone with various medical, psychological, and social vulnerabilities. The growing focus on the negative aspects of living alone goes parallel to its treatment as a structural trait (e.g. a “household status”) with predictable outcomes. On the basis of in-depth interviews with solo-living individuals from diverse sociological backgrounds, a different conceptualization of solo-living as a practice that can take multiple forms is proposed. The authors propose the concept of “practices of living alone” to highlight the strategies solo-living individuals employ to overcome the vulnerabilities in their lives and to sustain their independence, depending on their resources and cultural context. The authors conclude by suggesting that a reconceptualization that takes the multi-faceted and dynamic nature of solo-living seriously can open new venues of research as well as change our ways of thinking about the politics and ethics of solo-living.Item Open Access Constitutive representation of womanhood: An examination of legitimation strategies used by Turkish female deputies during the headscarf debate(John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2024-02-15) Uğur-Çınar, Meral; Yol, FatmaThis article analyzes the speeches of Turkish female parliamentarians during the headscarf debate. We examine how deputies with different political and ideological predilections discursively construct women's rights and employ legitimation strategies to validate their policy position. The findings reveal that on the one hand, the female deputies use different legitimation strategies to justify arguments for or against the use of headscarves in the public sector. On the other hand, they embed the headscarf debate into the broader political goals they pursue in a polarized political setting. They deploy legitimation strategies around the headscarf debate to rationalize future policy on issues ranging from the expansion of human rights and democracy to the change of the type of political regime.Item Open Access From unorthodox sufism to muslim anarchism: the disobedient case of islam-based political thought in Turkey(MDPI AG, 2024-10-17) Çelik, Kadir CanThis paper examines Muslim anarchists in Turkey who developed an Islam-based anarchist theory opposing private property, the state, capitalism, and all forms of authority. By analyzing their online periodical itaatsiz (disobedient), published since 2013, and earlier works by Muslim anarchist writers, this study explores their perspectives on the West, Islam, the Qur'an, and Sufism. Muslim anarchists stand out for their opposition to the hegemony of Enlightenment-based, anti-theist, and positivist thought in anarchist movements in Turkey and for their encouragement to re-examine concepts such as authority, private property, capitalism, and the state within the framework of Islam-based political thought. Studying how Muslim anarchists construct a social movement in today's Turkey is essential to understanding Islam-based conceptualizations of politics in Turkey and unpacking the relationship between Islam and anarchism.Item Open Access Art, science, and the politics of knowledge(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2024-01-18) Alexander, John JamesItem Open Access The real world of college: what higher education is and what it can be(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2024-01-18) Alexander, John James; Fischman, Wendy; Gardner, HowardItem Open Access Spaces of in/formality in the Turkish humanitarian field: Spatial and discursive practices impacting refugee women(Sage Publications Ltd., 2024-11) Erman, Tahire; Zadhy-Çepoğlu, Aminath NishaDrawing upon critical feminist theorising, this article intervenes in the debates about humanitarian aid organisations in the case of urban refugees to highlight the ubiquity of in/formal practices in their interlinkedness that increasingly shape aid distribution. By examining humanitarian enactments at three levels –the national, the district and the neighbourhood– in the case of Ankara, Turkey, the article advances theoretical discussions about how formality and informality are intertwined as spatial techniques and discursive practices are deployed justifying in/formality in practice. We argue that such spatial and discursive interventions have become normalised as local aid distributors seek legitimacy in a contested process to counteract their image as unregulated. By centring the experiences of urban refugee women and their engagement with in/formal humanitarian practices, we expose the gendered connotations underpinning these interventions at the three levels of humanitarian enactments as (1) detached paternalism at the national level creating refugee women’s alienation, (2) a culture of Islamic charity at the district level prompting gendered performances of victimhood and (3) patriarchal ideology of male saviours linked to Islam at the neighbourhood level disciplining refugee women and leading to their (sexual) exploitation. In doing so, we problematise spatial and discursive modalities of in/formality, which produce profoundly gendered precarities, causing refugee women’s subordination in multiple ways. Bringing attention to how in/formality− as a part of contemporary conditions of refugeehood− interacts with gender, and how legitimacy is attained through on-the-ground spatial techniques coupled with discourses, we contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of the humanitarian field.Item Open Access The Poetic of the fragment: Raymond Carver and social class(Routledge, 2025-01-05) Just, DanielShort stories by Raymond Carver depict working-class characters, routinely afflicted with adversities like unemployment, alcoholism, and divorce, in unusually brief and uncompromisingly descriptive narratives that give the impression of loose fragments incapable of cohering into integrated works of fiction. This study examines Carver's narrative style as a distinctive type of literary poetic that produces its own kind of coherence and integration. Rooted in the material constraints of the blue-collar environment in which Carver lived and wrote, his poetic of the fragment does not passively replicate these constraints but actively appropriates them to develop a unique form of storytelling.Item Open Access Juridico-political conditions of exceptional security measures: Turkey (1971-2002)(Routledge, 2024-05-21) Türkoğlu, BurcuContemporary literature on security measures interfering with the rights and liberties regime often relies on an exceptionalist approach grounded in the norm-exception dichotomy. This perspective oversimplifies the juridical conditions of exceptional security measures, where the law and politics coalesce, as the relationship between the norm and the exception is not necessarily dichotomous. Through an examination of Turkey's exceptional security measures from 1971 to 2002, this paper shows that the tension between political power and the law can unfold in diverse ways, even in countries where executive decision-making is constitutionally favoured, with norms and exceptions usually coexisting within the constitutional order. It argues that exceptional security measures are ingrained in state rule other than in the times of exception, challenging the limited explanatory power of the norm-exception dichotomy. Categorising every decision avoiding legal oversight as the Schmittian exception results in theoretically reductionist interpretations, overlooking the fact that such measures may have various juridico-political conditions. By analysing threat framing and the dispersion of political power, this study proposes a categorisation as to how norms and exceptions to the norms are created.Item Embargo Varieties of nothing: understatement and anticlimax in Chekhov, Hemingway, and Carver(The University of Chicago Press, 2024-05) Just, DanielCritics often note the similarity between the short stories of Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver, citing their uneventful plots, fragmented character portraits, and lack of epiphanies and other narrative tools of compensating for their understated representation and anticlimactic endings. Some even regard them as stories about nothing-too sparse and open ended to be well-rounded literary narratives. This study compares the use of understatement and anticlimax by Chekhov, Hemingway, and Carver. It argues that each writer develops a unique version of understated and anticlimactic storytelling that endows the purported nullity of his stories with a distinctive meaning by accentuating his created literary world. These worlds and how they are produced form a countertradition to that of modernist so-called "impressionist" tales.Item Open Access The space of permanent and state-level exceptional security measures: formative years of Israel and Turkey(Sage Publications Ltd., 2024-06-12) Türkoğlu, Burcu; Elitsoy, Z. AsliStudies examining the spatial patterns of exceptional security measures focus on constructed spaces or national territories exposed to international military intervention. Contemporary literature defines these spaces as zones of lawlessness where the exception prevails. By examining the security policies in the historical homelands of the Palestinians in Israel and the Kurds in Turkey, this article shows how exceptional security and the law co-constitute each other. Through a comparative historical analysis of the formative years of the Israeli and Turkish states, we argue that permanent exceptional security measures in territories inhabited by minority citizens are relevant to the political context in which the constituent power frames the political characteristics of the nation. In the process, exceptional security measures coexisting with the law become instrumental in maintaining and reproducing the distinction between the ‘legitimate members’ of the nation and the ‘enemies’ of the nation/state. The coexistence of exceptional security measures with the legal system challenges the conventional understanding of the exception and its dichotomous relationship with the norm, as outlined by Schmitt and Agamben. Instead, the conceptual framework of ‘legal violence,’ as articulated by Benjamin, offers a more comprehensive perspective for understanding the early years of the Israeli and Turkish states.Item Open Access The irregular pendulum of democracy Populism clientelism and corruption in post-Yugoslav successor states(Routledge, 2024-01-17) Canpolat Işık, EceItem Open Access The triumvirate of the Cambridge School: Pocock’s, Dunn’s and Skinner’s methodological articles on the history of political thought, 1962‐1969(Imprint Academic, 2024-05) Alexander, JamesThe Cambridge School of the history of political thought exists as a tradition of teaching in the History Faculty of Cambridge University, and as a set of works including famous books such as The Political Thought of John Locke, The Machiavel- lianMoment and The Foundations ofModern Political Thought. It acquired its distinctive status because of three methodological articles written in the 1960s by the triumvirate of J.G.A. Pocock, John Dunn and Quentin Skinner. These articles are usually assimilated to each other. No doubt there was much consonance between the three articles. But I demonstrate through a close reading of the three articles that each author placed a very different emphasis on the status and purpose of the history of political thought, and that the differences between the articles help to explain the remarkable differences in the subsequent writings of the authors fromthe late 1960s onwards. This article is not part of the recent tendency to study the thought of the last fifty years historically, though it may of course be a preliminary to that. My concern is textual, not contextual. This article should interest anyone concerned with the question of the relevance of historiography, the history of ideas and the history of political thought to the study of politics.Item Open Access Thinking citizenship through the lived experiences of highly skilled migrants in Budapest(Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia * Tarsadalomtudomanyi Kutatokozpont, Hungarian Academy of Sciences * Centre for Social Sciences, 2024-03-10) Gioftsios, Pinar Dilan Sönmez; Özçürümez, SaimeThis study aims to understand and explain the concept of citizenship by analyzing the lived experiences of highly skilled migrants, reflecting on their everyday transnational lives in the urban setting of Budapest. Based on discourse analysis of 30 semi-structured interviews conducted in Budapest in the fall of 2022, the research thinks through lived citizenship experiences to explore how and why these experiences matter for understanding subjective citizenship. This study suggests that the concept of lived citizenship embodies a complex narrative of everyday socio-economic, socio-cultural, and emotional experiences that go beyond what the legal status depicts. Citizenship experiences of highly skilled migrants involve a process of negotiating cultural and moral cosmopolitanism with constructive patriotism in everyday lives in the urban context. The research broadens the thinking on the foundation, manifestations, and operationalization of lived citizenship as experiences of belonging and coexistence, presenting a unique contribution to the production of knowledge about highly skilled migration in Hungary. This article proposes that citizenship entails complex relational dimensions and involves a life-long learning process with continual meaning-making through life experiences that transcends the consequences of individuals' legal status within a given nation-state.Item Open Access Continuity and change in Turkish politics economic and behavioural explanations of democratic backsliding(Routledge, 2024-05-13) Aydın, Mustafa; Yıldırım, KeremThis paper introduces a special issue focusing on the intricacies of Turkey’s party system and the evolution of Turkish party competition amid democratic challenges. The introduction provides a brief overview of each paper in this special issue, which delves into the relationship between economic factors and voter behavior, offering insights into the continued dominance of the ruling party. While doing so, the special issue specifically examines the 2023 Turkish General elections, presenting alternative perspectives on how the incumbent party maintains its electoral success.Item Open Access Ideological linkages and party competition in the 2023 Turkish general elections(Routledge, 2024-05-21) Yıldırım, KeremThis article explores the dynamics of ideological party competition within the context of the 2023 Turkish elections. Focusing on the role and appeal of ideology, it provides insights into the changing landscape of ideological competition during this pivotal electoral period. The study examines whether ideology operates as a guiding principle for Turkish voters grappling with intricate economic and social issues. Despite acknowledging that economic concerns may not singularly determine ideological positions, the paper highlights the enduring significance of ideology in shaping perceptions. The transformative nature of the 2023 elections, marked by the emergence of new parties and electoral alliances, further underscores the relevance of ideology. Additionally, the article assesses the appeal of ideological competition by investigating voters who cannot position parties or themselves on the ideology scale. This analysis reveals that factors such as media consumption, education, gender, and political efficacy significantly influence the ideological appeal in the 2023 elections.Item Restricted Let the people speak! what kind of civil society inclusion leads to durable peace?(Oxford University Press, 2024-08-10) Çuhadar, Esra; Druckman, DanielIn this article, building on the earlier research on procedural justice (PJ) and civil society inclusion, we assess the effectiveness of various civil society inclusion modalities based on their impact on durable peace (DP). A set of hypotheses concerning civil society inclusion is evaluated using the fifty-case peace agreement dataset assembled by Druckman and Wagner (2019) . Their study showed that PJ was a key predictor of DP. We take their model as the base and add inclusion variables step by step using a hierarchical regression model. Results show that inclusive commissions (ICs) add significant explained variance to the prediction of DP. None of the other modalities add significant variance to the prediction. A possible explanation is that ICs ensure the continuation of civil society inclusion between the negotiation and implementation phases of a peace process. As well, they optimize breadth and depth in an inclusive negotiation process. The article concludes with discussions of next steps in the research and develops implications for policy makers.Item Open Access What leads to voting despite intention to abstain?: emotions, turnout, and negative campaigns in Turkish elections(Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc., 2024-10-08) Çınar, Meral Uğur; Ince, TugceThis article sheds light on the factors that pave the way from voter abstention to voter turnout based on extensive research of tweets on national and local elections in Turkey. We find that the negative campaign strategy of the incumbent and the fact that the campaigning process has taken place on a very uneven playing field have triggered a set of emotions, primarily moral outrage and anger among the electorate, which have the power to change voting patterns in a significant way. The effect of negative campaigning on expressive voting was further enhanced by the pulling effect of the candidates and their public supporters and endorsements. We found that other, competing explanations of political outcomes are secondary to the mechanisms above.