Browsing by Subject "Turkey"
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Ambidextrous Regimes: Leadership Survival and Fiscal Transparency
(2012)How do political leaders strategically manage fiscal policy formation to enhance their political survival? What are the implications of the fiscal mechanics of survival for theories of redistribution and democratic transition? ... -
Cross-cultural variability of component processes in autobiographical remembering: Japan, Turkey, and the USA.
(Memory, 2007-07)Although the underlying mechanics of autobiographical memory may be identical across cultures, the processing of information differs. Undergraduates from Japan, Turkey, and the USA rated 30 autobiographical memories on 15 ... -
Dangerous Jokes and the Power of Tolerance
(2011-04-27)A fieldwork study of Duke University aims to show how identity functions in an environment whose ideal is perfect tolerance and the experience of students who want to practice their religion as a college student, touching ... -
Electoral Institutions, Party Organizations, and Political Instability
(2009)A majority of formal theoretic research in political science treats political parties as unitary actors, and endows them with decision-making powers not unlike those of strategic individuals. This is true both of most research ... -
Female Labor Force Participation in Turkic Countries: A Study of Azerbaijan and Turkey
(2019-04)Encouraging female labor force participation (FLFP) should be a goal of any country attempting to increase its productive capacity. Understanding the determinants and motivations of labor force participation requires isolating ... -
Fully Committed? Religiously Committed State Populations and International Conflict
(2018)This dissertation project argues that high levels of religious commitment within a population-that is, high levels of importance attached to religious identities and ideas-can increase a state's propensity for initiating ... -
Global Sport, Territorial Ambition: How Professional Soccer Remade Turkey
(2020)Based on fieldwork in Bursa and archival research, this dissertation investigates the historical interplay between professional soccer, nationalism, and globalization in Turkey. The dissertation makes the case that the globalized ... -
Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Civic Legacies of the Islamic Waqf
(Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper, 2014-06-12)In the pre-modern Middle East the closest thing to an autonomous private organization was the Islamic waqf. This non-state institution inhibited political participation, collective action, and rule of law, among other indicators ... -
The Politics of Indebtedness: The Dialectic of State Violence and Benevolence in Turkey
(2017)This dissertation examines the interplay between sovereignty and governmentality in the domain of welfare provision in Turkey’s Kurdish southeast through the analytic of debt.The dissertation shows that debt lies at the ... -
The Qur'an after Babel: Translating and Printing the Qur'an in Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey
(2009)This dissertation examines the translation and printing of the Qur'an in the late Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Republic of Turkey (1820-1938). As most Islamic scholars deem the Qur'an inimitable divine speech, ... -
Turkish Foreign Policy: Neo-Ottomanism 2.0 and the Future of Turkey's Relations with the West.
(2012)Turkish-Western relations have undergone a tremendous transformation over the last five years. This relationship has at times produced vast amounts of cooperation, while at other times, tension and non-cooperation has occurred. ... -
U.S.-Turkish Relations: Re-situating the “Kurdish Question”
(2016-04-19)Historically many American policymakers have not prioritized the status of Turkey’s Kurds in bilateral relations, despite the significant political, cultural, and security implications of the “Kurdish Question”. The events ...
