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Assistant Professor in Politics & Political Methodology, King's College London
Bureaucracy, State Capacity, and Public Service Provision
"The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance." Conditional Acceptance, American Journal of Political Science.
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Best Comparative Policy Paper Award, APSA
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Best Paper Award in MENA Politics (Honorable Mention), APSA
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Phi Sigma Alpha Award (best paper presented at the annual MPSA conference), MPSA
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Kenneth J. Meier Award (best paper in bureaucratic politics, public administration, or public policy), MPSA
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Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar, MPSA
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Featured in the podcast series Rocking Our Priors and Governance Uncovered
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Featured in MIT News
"Imams and Patrons: Service Provision by Islamist Non-State Actors" (with Fotini Christia). Conditional Acceptance, Journal of Conflict Resolution.
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Best Paper Award in MENA Politics, APSA
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Weber Best Conference Paper Award in Religion and Politics, APSA
"Teachers against Landlords: Landlessness and Compliance with Compulsory Primary Education"(with Asli Cansunar).
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“Scarcity and Discrimination in Local Public Services: Evidence from Health Clinics in Lebanon” (with Aytug Sasmaz and Melani Cammett). In Progress.
“Urban Bias in Rural Governance” (with Aytug Sasmaz). In Progress.
Distributive Politics & Policies in Diverse Societies
"The Unintended Consequences of Nation-Making Institutions for Civil Society Development."(with Asli Cansunar). Journal of Historical Political Economy, 1(4): 591-613, 2021.
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"Enforcement Process Tracing: Forbearance and Dilution in Urban Colombia and Turkey" (with Alisha Holland). Studies in Comparative International Development, 53(3): 300-323, August 2018.
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"Women and the welfare state regime of Turkey," Turkish Policy Quarterly, 11(4): 177-188, Winter 2013.
"The Education Dilemma: Favoring the In-Group or Assimilating the Out-Group"(with Asli Cansunar).
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"The Education Backlash: How Assimilative Primary School Education Affects Insurgency in Areas of Ethnic Conflict"(with Asli Cansunar).
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"Colonial Agricultural Institutions and their Long-Term Impact on Development"(with Robin Harding and Arinze Nwokolo). In Progress.
Electoral Accountability
"Members of the Same Club?: Subnational Variations in Electoral Returns to Public Goods." Under Review.
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Fiona McGillivray Award for Best Paper in Political Economy (Honorable Mention), APSA
“The Gender Effect in Intra-Party Meritocracy” (with Rabia Kutlu). Working Paper.
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“The Effect of Incumbency on Local Political Dynasties and Elite Capture” (with Aytug Sasmaz and Rabia Kutlu). Working Paper.
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Refugee Integration and Welfare
"Combining Mobile Data and Satellite Imaging for Human Mobility" (with Asli Cansunar), in Data Science for Migration and Mobility (Salah, Korkmaz, Bircan, eds.), Oxford University Press, 2022.
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"Assessing Syrian Refugee Integration Using Call Detail Records from Turkey" (with Fotini Christia, Constantinos Daskalakis, Elizabeth Harwood, Christos Papadimitriou), in Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios (Salah, Pentland, Lepri, Letouze, Vinck, de Montjoye, Dong, eds.), Springer, 2019:223-249.
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"Policy Implications of the D4R Challenge" (with Salah et al.), in Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios (Salah, Pentland, Lepri, Letouze, Vinck, de Montjoye, Dong, eds.), Springer, 2019:477-495.
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"How Seasonal Employment Increases Immigrant Urban Mobility: Evidence from Refugee Call Detail Records"(with Ahmet Utku Akbiyik and Ashrakat Elshehawy). In Progress.
Policy
"The Geography of Gulenism in Turkey," Foreign Policy, 18 March 2019 (with Fotini Christia).
"Turkish Referendum Rallies in Europe Made Headlines. Did they Affect Election Results?" Monkey Cage/The Washington Post, 6 May 2017 (with Fotini Christia).
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