We held our second workshop, titled Emerging Welfare Quantitative Analysis and Methodology Colloquium, at Koç University, Istanbul, on 10-11 January, 2018. We would like to want to thank everyone who participated in the workshop through their presentations and comments. We look forward to meeting in the future events of our...
Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük’s and Prof. Martin Powell’s co-authored paper, “Straddling two continents and beyond three worlds? The case of Turkey’s welfare regime,” is published online in New Perspectives on Turkey, on November 7, 2016.
We have commenced a joint-discussion on data availability with the World Bank’s ASPIRe Project team through a Skype meeting.
Our workshop commitee has decided on the participants of the Politics of Welfare in Emerging Markets Workshop, which is to take place at Koç University, Istanbul, on 15-16 March 2018. We are sincerely impressed with the number of applications we recieved and want to thank everyone who applied for their...
Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük gave a university lecture, titled “Politics of Emerging Welfare Regimes”, at Jacobs University, Bremen, on September 27, 2017.
Dr. Zeynep Clulow and Dr. Ali Hürriyetoğlu are offered Post-Doctoral Researcher positions for our project. We look forward to meeting them on December 2017! Our Doctoral Researcher İbrahim Öker has started his first year as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science of the University of Minnesota, Twin...
Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük presented a paper, titled “New Global Welfare Regime Cluster Structure,” at the Nordic Political Science Association (NoPSA) Conference which took place at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 8-11 August 2017.
Assoc. Prof. Deniz Yüret from the Computer Engineering Department of Koç University started to work with us as a Supervisor Researcher.
In addition to the three on-going article projects with Prof. Martin Powell from Birmingham University, we have started three new article projects! First one is on the comparison between Inda and China with Assoc. Prof. Indrajit Roy from York University; second one is on the comparison between Turkey and Brazil...
Dr. Çağrı Yoltar will be starting to work with us as the new Project Leader. We congragulate Dr. Yoltar on her success and look forward to meeting her on August 2017.