About the Project

This research project aims to identify a new welfare regime in  emerging market economies and explain why it has emerged.

The project will compare China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey to test two hypotheses:

(i) emerging market economies are forming a new welfare regime that differs from liberal, corporatist and social democratic welfare regimes of the global north on the basis of extensive and decommodifying social assistance programmes

(ii) the new welfare regime emerges principally as a response to the growing political power of the poor as a dual source of threat and support for governments.

The project is led by Assistant Prof. Dr. Erdem Yörük and funded by the European Research Council.

Horizon 2020, Excellent Science, ERC Starting Grant 2016,  Project Number: 714868, Proposal Acronym: EmergingWelfare

Meet with Us

We are currently recruiting!

Have you seen our new job announcements?

• Research Assistant Position at Koç University

• Sociology PhD Scholarship at Koç University funded by Emerging Welfare ERC Project

• Research Assistant Position at Koç University – Spanish (and Portugese) speaking candidates are encouraged to apply

• Summer Research Trainee Positions in NLP and Information Extraction at Koç University 

Please go to our Job Openings page to see the available positions and submit an application to be a part of our project.