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Publication Metadata only Policy europeanisation(Routledge, 2021) N/A; Department of Sociology; Kazanoğlu, Nazlı; Teaching Faculty; Department of Sociology; The Center for Gender Studies (KOÇ-KAM) / Koç Üniversitesi Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmaları Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi (KOÇ-KAM); College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Europeanisation(Routledge, 2021) N/A; Department of Sociology; Kazanoğlu, Nazlı; Teaching Faculty; Department of Sociology; The Center for Gender Studies (KOÇ-KAM) / Koç Üniversitesi Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmaları Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi (KOÇ-KAM); College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Disabled Istanbulites' everyday life experiences as 'urban citizens': accessibility and participation in decision-making(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018) Yardımcı, Sibel; Department of Sociology; Bezmez, Dikmen; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 101788This article assesses whether the everyday experiences of disabled İstanbulites can be considered from an urban citizenship perspective. To this end, Lefebvre's notion of the right to the city' and its relationship with the literature on urban citizenship and Disability Studies is discussed, and two broad categories of analysis are presented to elaborate the issue in the case of İstanbul. These are, namely accessibility - to space, but also to education, health, and employment - and participation in decision-making. Interviews show that the limited rights-based discourses, which guided the institutional transformation of the greater and district municipalities in the early 2000s, have had almost no impact on the everyday experience of disabled İstanbulites. İstanbul remains a largely disabling city with major problems of accessibility and no room in decision-making processes for disabled people. Unfortunately, current developments do not point to the possibility of a more powerful practice of urban citizenship.Publication Metadata only Explaining anti-Kurdish beliefs in Turkey: group competition, identity, and globalization(Wiley, 2010) Dixon, Jeffrey C.; Department of Sociology; Ergin, Murat; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 106427Objective In the wake of Turkey's EU candidacy and the U.S.-led war in Iraq, Turkey's Kurdish question has drawn international attention. Due to previous data limitations, ours is the first article to analyze what explains anti-Kurdish beliefs in Turkey using nationally representative survey data. Methods Through descriptive analyses and partial proportional odds models of the Pew Global Attitudes Survey (2002), we examine the extent and sources of these beliefs. Results We find high levels of anti-Kurdish beliefs in Turkey, but little evidence of group competition/material interests shaping these beliefs; rather, nationalism, secularism, and, somewhat surprisingly, favorable evaluations of globalization better explain anti-Kurdish beliefs. Conclusion Although broad processes of social-dominance orientation and authoritarianism may be factors working in the background, anti-Kurdish beliefs are better explained by the peculiar case of modernization in Turkey and these anti-Kurdish beliefs may be different from negative beliefs about other minorities.Publication Metadata only Welfare provision as political containment: the politics of social assistance and the Kurdish conflict in Turkey(Sage, 2012) Department of Sociology; Yörük, Erdem; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 28982Can we argue that pressures generated from grassroots politics are responsible for the rapid expansion and ethnically/racially uneven distribution of social assistance programs in emerging economies? This article analyzes the Turkish case and shows that social assistance programs in Turkey are directed disproportionately to the Kurdish minority and to the Kurdish region of Turkey, especially to the internally displaced Kurds in urban and metropolitan areas. The article analyzes a cross-sectional dataset generated by a 10,386-informant stratified random sampling survey and controls for possibly intervening socioeconomic factors and neighborhood-level fixed-effects. The results show that high ethnic disparity in social assistance is not due to higher poverty among Kurds. Rather, Kurdish ethnic identity is the main determinant of the access to social assistance. This result yields substantive support to argue that the Turkish government uses social assistance to contain the Kurdish unrest in Turkey. The Turkish government seems to give social assistance not simply where the people become poor, but where the poor become politicized. This provides support for Fox Piven and Cloward's thesis that relief for the poor is driven by social unrest, rather than social need. The article concludes that similar hypotheses may hold true for other emerging economies, where similar types of social assistance programs have recently expanded significantly and have been directed to ethnic/racial groups.Publication Metadata only Class and politics in Turkey's Gezi protests(New Left Rev Ltd, 2014) Department of Sociology; Department of Sociology; Yörük, Erdem; Yüksel, Murat; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 28982; N/AN/APublication Metadata only Bringing registration into models of vote overreporting(Oxford Univ Press, 2007) Fullerton, Andrew S.; Borch, Casey; Department of Sociology; Dixon, Jeffrey C.; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AVoting is a socially desirable act and a basic form of political participation in the United States. This social desirability sometimes leads respondents in surveys, such as the National Election Study (NES), to claim to have voted when they did not. The methodology of previous studies assumes that people only overreport voting and that the sample of potential overreporters (i.e., nonvalidated voters) is not systematically different from the sample of potential voters. In this research note, we explore several different ways of examining the determinants of overreporting at two different stages (registering and voting) and with a consideration for selection bias. Comparing the traditional probit model used in previous research with sequential and heckit probit models, we find that the determinants of overreporting registering and voting differ substantially. In addition, there is a significant selection effect at the registration stage of overreporting. We conclude with a discussion of contemporary implications for pre-election polling and the postelection analysis of survey data.Publication Metadata only Contextual framework(Routledge, 2021) N/A; Department of Sociology; Kazanoğlu, Nazlı; Teaching Faculty; Department of Sociology; The Center for Gender Studies (KOÇ-KAM) / Koç Üniversitesi Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmaları Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi (KOÇ-KAM); College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AThis chapter lays out the contextual framework, starting with discussion of geographical and demographical aspects of the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) region. Following an in-depth analysis of the political economy of J&K state, India, since pre-independence era, the chapter analyzes its performance on selected economic and fiscal indicators over time as well as vis-a-vis selected states in the country. It also delves into a detailed analysis of employment situation in J&K state vis-a-vis other Indian states and explains why the issue of quality jobs is of particular relevance to fragile as well as poor-/lower-middle income states which witness a greater degree of economic distress. Finally, it attempts to capture deficits in human capital formation in J&K state by analyzing its status of health and education.Publication Metadata only Economic dependency and environmental attitudes in Turkey(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2005) N/A; Department of Sociology; Ignatow, Gabriel; Faculty Member; Department of Sociology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AStudies of public opinion on environmental issues have been influenced by theories of class conflict and of value change resulting from economic security, but not much by dependency theories. This paper argues that the economic dependence of developing nations on wealthier nations and international lending institutions can substantially affect public opinion within developing nations. Specifically, in developing nations, citizens' awareness of their country's dependence on foreign investment and loans, and of the state's limited sovereignty over domestic environmental issues, can combine to tamp down national support for and knowledge of environmental campaigns even when such campaigns find strong local support, and even when environmental concern is generally strong. A review of two environmental movements and of public opinion in Turkey since the early 1980s suggests that an explanation based on dependency theory, rather than on theories of class conflict or postmaterialism, can best account for how economic processes influence public opinion.Publication Metadata only The politics of Europeanisation work and family life reconciliation policy preface(Routledge, 2021) N/A; Department of Sociology; Kazanoğlu, Nazlı; Teaching Faculty; Department of Sociology; The Center for Gender Studies (KOÇ-KAM) / Koç Üniversitesi Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmaları Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi (KOÇ-KAM); College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/A