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Publication Open Access How do mega-bank merger policy and regulations contribute to financial stability? Evidence from Australia and Canada(Taylor _ Francis, 2017) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Bakır, Caner; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 108141Although the role of financial regulatory failures in the global financial crisis (GFC) has been explored extensively in the post-GFC literature, our knowledge of the role of bank merger and takeover policy and regulation in reinforcing financial stability is limited. Based on an exploratory case study of Australia, which is examined in comparison to Canada, this article argues that competition policy and regulation contributed to financial stability by insulating the largest Australian and Canadian banks from domestic or foreign hostile takeover threats, and by limiting their asset size, and thus their internationalization and interconnections with the global banking community.Publication Open Access Turkey's two elections: the AKP comes back(Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Press, 2016) Öniş, Ziya; Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and EconomicsIn power since 2002, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seemed as if it might be losing its hold when Turkish voters went to the polls in June 2015. Yet that “hung election” gave way to another contest in November, and the AKP came roaring back.Publication Open Access Parliamentary elections and the prospect for political pluralism in North Africa(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2000) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Dillman, Bradford L.; College of Administrative Sciences and EconomicsPublication Open Access Discourse analysis: strengths and shortcomings(Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research, 2019) Aydın-Düzgit, Senem; Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Rumelili, Bahar; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 51356Discourse analysis is a much-favoured textual analysis method among constructivist and critically minded International Relations scholars interested in the impact of identity, meaning, and discourse on world politics. The aim of this article is to guide students of Turkish IR in their choice and use of this method. Written by two Turkish IR scholars who have employed discourse analysis in their past and present research, this article also includes a personal reflection on its strengths and shortcomings. The first section of the article presents an overview of the conceptual and epistemological underpinnings of discourse analysis, while charting the evolution of discourse analysis in IR since the late 1980s in three phases. The second section offers insight into the personal history of the researchers in employing discourse analysis in their previous and ongoing research, while the third section provides a how-to manual by performing discourse analysis of an actual text. The concluding section focuses on the challenges faced in the conduct of discourse analysis and the potential ways to overcome them, also drawing from the researchers'own experiences in the field.Publication Open Access Why some countries are immune from the resource curse: the role of economic norms(Taylor _ Francis, 2016) Mousseau, Michael; Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Aytaç, Selim Erdem; Örsün, Ömer Faruk; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 224278; N/AThe political resource curse - the detrimental effect of natural resource dependence on democracy - is a well-established correlate of authoritarianism. A long-standing puzzle, however, is why some countries seem to be immune from it. We address this issue systematically by distinguishing two kinds of economies: contract-intensive, where individuals normally obtain their incomes in the marketplace; and clientelist, where individuals normally obtain their incomes in groups that compete over state rents. We theorize that the institutionalized patronage opportunities in clientelist economies are an important precondition for the resource curse, and that nations with contract-intensive economies are immune from it. Analysis of 150 countries from 1973 to 2000 yields robust support for this view. By introducing clientelist economy as a prerequisite for the resource curse, this study offers an important advance in understanding how nations democratize.Publication Open Access Turkey and the Arab revolutions: boundaries of regional power influence in a turbulent Middle East(Taylor _ Francis, 2014) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Öniş, Ziya; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 7715The recent Turkish involvement in the Middle East constitutes an important test case for establishing the boundaries of regional power influence in a changing global context. The AKP government in Turkey has become a major supporter of political change and democratization in the era of the Arab revolutions. Accumulating empirical evidence suggests, however, that the highly assertive and pro-active foreign policy of the AKP government in recent years has not been effective in terms of facilitating reform or regime change in Syria or helping to influence the direction of political change in Egypt towards a durable pluralistic order. Indeed, the policy might have been counter-productive in terms of undermining Turkey's image of a benign regional power, by drawing it to sectarian conflicts and over-engagement in the domestic politics of key Arab states. Turkey has the potential to play an important role model in the highly uncertain world of the Arab revolutions. Its ability to perform this role, however, requires an improvement in its own democratic credentials, rather than being excessively involved in the domestic politics of individual states.Publication Open Access Gender policy architecture in Turkey: localizing transnational discourses of women's employment(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017) Alnıaçık, Ayşe; Deniz, Ceren; Department of International Relations; Department of Sociology; Department of International Relations; Department of Sociology; Olcay, Özlem Altan; Gökşen, Fatoş; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; 51292This article studies the institutionalization and implementation of policies addressing women’s low labor force participation in Turkey. It examines how state actors and institutions translate gender mainstreaming and work-family balance in the Turkish policy context. Approaching the state as a multi-layered and hierarchical set of institutions and practices, we trace the emergence of a policy architecture that marginalizes questions of women’s employment and gender equality. Our goal is to shed light on how state actors and institutions actively participate in vernacularizing transnational gender policy norms and, in the process, bend these norms so far that they produce contradictory meanings and practices.Publication Open Access The EU-Turkey cooperation on migration(2017) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 238439Publication Open Access Global inequality: the current debate, it's importance and policy recommendations(Uluslararasi İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği (UIK), 2009) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Aytaç, Selim Erdem; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 224278Despite the recent popularity of the subject of global inequality in the literature, most studies focus only on the debate about the direction and magnitude of change of global inequality during the last few decades, without deliberating, about the different policy recommendations needed to address it. This article aims to fill this gap in the literature by reviewing the contemporary research on global inequality with an emphasis on different policy recommendations. In order to introduce the bigger picture, the study also presents a discussion on the latest findings oil the level of global inequality and why it should be considered as a significant problem for humanity.Publication Open Access Policy learning and policy change: learning from research citations(Springer, 2017) Department of International Relations; Department of International Relations; Bakır, Caner; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; 108141Although the seminal article by Bennett and Howlett (Policy Sciences 25: 275-294, 1992) on policy learning and change has been one of the top five most cited articles in Policy Sciences, no attempt has yet been made to provide a citation analysis showing how its impact has evolved over time. This paper reports the findings of a study that provides a systematic analysis of the citing articles published in academic journals during the period 1992-2017.