News from EMW

08/10/2019

Erdem Yörük giving a talk at METU

Erdem Yörük will be giving a talk, titled How Contentious Politics Changes the Welfare State in the Global South: Brazil,...

14/08/2019

Erdem Yörük and Burak Gürel presented in ASA Annual Meeting 2019

Erdem Yörük and Burak Gürel presented a co-authored paper, titled Welfare as Counter-Insurgency in India by Erdem Yörük, Burak Gürel...

04/07/2019

Erdem Yörük and Burak Gürel presented in National Taiwan University

Erdem Yörük and Burak Gürel presented a co-authored paper, titled Social Assistance as Political Containment in Contemporary China by Erdem...

02/07/2019

Erdem Yörük presented at the Historical Materialism BCN Conference

Erdem Yörük presented a co-authored paper, titled Containment through Welfare Provision? Land Invasions, Land Reforms and the Implementation of the...

12/05/2019 / Seminar-talk-lecture

Erdem Yörük gave a talk at ERC Information Days

Our Principlal Investigator Dr. Erdem Yörük gave a talk, ERC Success Story, at ERC Information Days event at Boğaziçi University,...

07/05/2019

The Politics of Welfare in Emerging Markets: A Talk by Dr. Erdem Yörük

Our Principal Investigator Dr. Erdem Yörük will be presenting the Emerging Welfare Project at The Department of International Relations of...

03/04/2019

Talks by Erdem Yörük and Burak Gürel

Dr. Erdem Yörük and Dr. Burak Gürel gave talks at CUNY Political Science Department (on April 1) and Johns Hopkins...

29/03/2019

Erdem Yörük will be giving a talk at CUNY on April 1, 2019

Erdem Yörük wil be giving a talk, titled The Politics of Welfare in Emerging Markets, at the City University of...

18/03/2019

4th Koç Sohbetleri Talk by Erdem Yörük on March 22, 2019

Our Principal Invetigator Erdem Yörük will be giving a talk, titled "The Poitics of Welfare in Emerging Markets: The Role...

05/03/2019

Erdem Yörük will be giving a seminar on March 7, 2019

Our Principal Investigator Erdem Yörük will be giving a seminar, titled “The New Politics of Welfare: India and Beyond", on...

04/03/2019 / Symposium

We met with more than 60 researchers at the Symposium on March 1, 2019, Friday

The Frontier Social Policy Research Symposium, organized by the Emerging Welfare Project, took place on March 1, 2019, with the...

22/02/2019

Aline Villavicencio visited the EMW Project Team at Koç University

Aline Villavicencio, one of the advisors of the Emerging Welfare Project, came to visit us at Koç University and gave...

13/02/2019 / Symposium

Frontier Social Policy Research Symposium

We are organizing the Frontier Social Policy Research Symposium that will take place on March 1, 2019, Friday, from 10am...

04/02/2019

CLIN 29 Presentation by Berfu Büyüköz

Our team member Berfu Büyüköz presented in Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) 29, on January 31, Thursday, at Oosterpoort,...

25/01/2019 / New Article

New article published!

Erdem Yörük, İbrahim Öker, Kerem Yıldırım and Burcu Yakut-Çakar's article, titled The Variable Selection Problem in the Three Worlds of...

29/11/2018 / Seminar-talk-lecture, Workshop

Workshop on “Systematic Review” by Ali Bargu

Our team member Ali Bargu made a presentation on Systematic Review via Skype on November 28, 2019. We thank him...

07/11/2018 / New Article

New publication!

Our team members Arda Akdemir, Ali Hürriyetoğlu, Erdem Yörük, Burak Gürel, Çağrı Yoltar, and Deniz Yüret published a paper, titled...

07/11/2018 / Conference Participation

CLEF 2019 – Call for Lab Participations!

Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2019, which is to be held between 9 - 12 September 2019...

05/11/2018 / Seminar-talk-lecture

Ali Hürriyetoğlu presenting at “Sociology Talks” of Koç University

Our team member Ali Hürriyetoğlu will be giving a talk on November 7, 2019, at Koç University. You can find...

30/10/2018 / Seminar-talk-lecture

Erdem Yörük’s talk at Sehir University

Erdem Yörük will be giving a talk, The Politics of Wefare in Emerging Markets, at Center for Modern Turkish Studies,...

22/10/2018 / Other

Our team visited South Africa

Alper Gençer and Çağrı Yoltar visited Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town between October 11-21, 2018 to gather more information on...

15/10/2018 / Seminar-talk-lecture

Gabriela Tafoya presenting at “Sociology Talks” of Koç University

Our team member Gabriela Tafoya will give a talk at Koç University on October 17, 2019. You can find the...

10/10/2018 / Conference Participation, Workshop

Workshop at EUI Political Science Department

Our team has been invited to EUI Political Science Department. Erdem Yörük and Ali Hürriyetoğlu participated in a workshop organized...

05/09/2018 / Conference Participation

CLEF Protest News 2019

Our lab proposal -prepared and led by our postdoc researcher Ali Hürriyetoğlu- was accepted to be organized in Conference and...

18/08/2018 / Summer school, Training

The 51st Essex Summer School

Our team member Ali Bargu participated in the 51st Essex Summer School in which various types of quantitative and qualitative research...

18/08/2018 / Summer school, Training

ESSLLI 2018 Summer School

Our team member Osman Mutlu participated in the 30th edition of European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI)...

13/08/2018 / Recruitment

Updates on our team!

Our team members Sümerjan Bozkurt Güngen and Ömer Özcan has started their new Visiting Assistant Professorship positions in the University...

17/07/2018 / Conference Participation

We are at the ISA Conference

Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük presented four papers --titled The Politics of Social Assistance in South Africa,Social Assistance...

10/07/2018 / Recruitment

Updates on our team!

Our Project Engineer Osman Mutlu is accepted to the Master's Program of Computer Engineering Department of Koç University to start...

06/07/2018 / Training, Workshop

3rd Intercoder Reliability Workshop in Content Analysis

Our team members Dr. Ali Hurriyetoglu and Sinemis Temel participated in the 3rd Intercoder Reliability Workshop in Content Anaylsis, which...

01/07/2018 / Other

We are starting to build protest databases for India and China!

Following months of work on building a protest database for Turkey, now the Work Package 2 team, including a dedicated...

30/06/2018 / Recruitment

Updates on our team!

Dr. Gabriela Tafoya is offered Post-Doctoral Researcher and Fuat Kına is offered PhD Researcher positions in our project. We congragulate...

20/06/2018 / New Article

Special Issue: The New Politics of Welfare in Emerging Market Economies

Our team's special issue proposal is accepted by Governance, which is an academic journal published in association with the International Political...

08/04/2018 / Conference Participation

Our research team is at the MSPA Conference 2018 (2)

Ali Bargu presented the co-authored paper, titled Social Assistance as Political Containment in Contemporary China at the 76th annual Midwest...

06/04/2018 / Conference Participation

Our research team is at the MPSA Conference 2018 (1)

İbrahim Öker presented the co-authored paper, titled Indigenous Revolts and Politics of Social Assistance in Mexico at the 76th annual...

16/03/2018 / Workshop

The New Politics of Welfare in Emerging Market Economies Workshop is completed

The New Politics of Welfare in Emerging Market Economies Workshop, organized by the EMW project, has been completed yielding a...

16/02/2018 / Seminar-talk-lecture

‘Horizon2020 Information Day’ seminar talk

Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük gave a talk regarding the Emerging Welfare Project, and his ERC grant application...

02/02/2018 / Training

Annotator training

We held a two-day training session for our annotators. Dr. Ali Hürriyetoğlu gave a seminar on natural language processing (NLP)...

26/01/2018 / Workshop

ESPA 2018 Workshop

Our team member Alper Şükrü Gençer presented a paper, titled, in Empirical Studies in Political Analysis (ESPA) 2018 Workshop, Gaziantep,...

23/01/2018 / Seminar-talk-lecture

Seminar talk at Università degli Studi di Milano

Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük gave a seminar talk, titled “The New Politics of Welfare: Towards and 'Emerging...

19/01/2018 / Seminar-talk-lecture

University talk at University of Oxford

Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük gave a talk, titled “The New Politics of Welfare: Towards and 'Emerging Markets'...

11/01/2018 / Workshop

EMW Quantitative Analysis and Methodology Colloquium, 10-11January, 2018,

We held our second workshop, titled Emerging Welfare Quantitative Analysis and Methodology Colloquium, at Koç University, Istanbul, on 10-11 January,...

08/11/2017 / New Article

New publication

Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük's and Prof. Martin Powell's co-authored paper, "Straddling two continents and beyond three worlds?...

01/11/2017 / Other

Joint-discussion with World Bank’s ASPIRe Project team

We have commenced a joint-discussion on data availability with the World Bank's ASPIRe Project team through a Skype meeting.

18/10/2017 / Workshop

Politics of Welfare in Emerging Markets Workshop, 15-16 March 2018

Our workshop commitee has decided on the participants of the Politics of Welfare in Emerging Markets Workshop, which is to...

28/09/2017 / Other

University lecture at Jacobs University

Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük gave a university lecture, titled "Politics of Emerging Welfare Regimes", at Jacobs University,...

04/09/2017 / Recruitment

Updates on our team!

Dr. Zeynep Clulow and Dr. Ali Hürriyetoğlu are offered Post-Doctoral Researcher positions for our project. We look forward to meeting...

12/08/2017 / Conference Participation

The NoPSA Conference 2017

Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük presented a paper, titled “New Global Welfare Regime Cluster Structure," at the Nordic...

22/07/2017 / Recruitment

New Supervisor Researcher: Assoc. Prof. Deniz Yüret

Assoc. Prof. Deniz Yüret from the Computer Engineering Department of Koç University started to work with us as a Supervisor...

20/07/2017 / New Article

New article projects

In addition to the three on-going article projects with Prof. Martin Powell from Birmingham University, we have started three new...

15/07/2017 / Recruitment

Our new Project Leader: Dr. Çağrı Yoltar

Dr. Çağrı Yoltar will be starting to work with us as the new Project Leader. We congragulate Dr. Yoltar on...

01/07/2017 / Recruitment

Dr. Kerem Yıldırım’s success

Our Project Leader Dr. Kerem Yıldırım has been offered a Visiting Assistant Professor position at Sabancı University Political Science Department,...

17/05/2017 / Workshop

West Asia Workshop 2017

Our Supervisor Researcher Asst. Prof. Burak Gürel presented a paper, which is titled “The politics of social assistance in contemporary...

01/05/2017 / New Article

An article project on China

We have started an article project on China with Yao Li, a postdoctoral fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic...

01/02/2017 / Other

Our team’s visit to India

Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük and Supervisor Researcher Asst. Prof. Burak Gürel made a presentation and introduced the...