Name | Gül Arıkan Akdağ |
Affiliation | Assist. Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at İzmir Katip Çelebi University |
Profile | Gül Arıkan Akdağ is working on political participation through the analysis of political parties with a special emphasis on clientelism and ethnicity as determinants of political participation. She mainly focuses on activism in and membership to political parties as specific forms of political participation through a quantitative perspective. Her research areas include Political parties’ mobilization, voting behavior, Ethnic Politics, Party/voter linkages Clientelism. |
Publications | ‘Rational Political Parties and Electoral Games: AKP’s Strategic Move for the Kurdish Vote in Turkey’, Turkish Studies, November 2015 (published online) (SSCI) Ethnicity and Elections in Turkey: Party Politics and the Mobilization of Swing Voters, Routledge, (ISBN: 978-1138774841 Eylül 2014) ‘AKP’s Local Politics: Perceived Discrimination as an Obstacle to Ethnic Mobilization’, Alternative Politics, Temmuz 2012, Vol: 4, No: 2, pp. 147-179. (WPSA, Ebscohost,)
‘An Alternative Explanation to AKP’s Electoral Success: Structure and Functions of the Local Branches’, Alternative Politics, Vol: 4 Number: 1, Şubat 2012, pp: 27-53. (WPSA, Ebscohost,) |