- Boston, MA
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Emel Elif Tugdar
Harvard University, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Department Member
- Visiting Scholaredit
This article assesses the impact of Europeanization on the minority protection policies in Turkey. The diffusion of European norms into European Union and the declaration of the Copenhagen Criteria in 1993 marked the respect for minority... more
This article assesses the impact of Europeanization on the minority protection policies in Turkey. The diffusion of European norms into European Union and the declaration of the Copenhagen Criteria in 1993 marked the respect for minority rights as a condition for EU membership, which is defined as part of the “acquis communitaire” of the European Union.[1] In this paper, I ask, “which domestic factors lead to the Europeanization of minority policies” to analyze the impact of Europeanization on the minority policies in Turkey. Utilizing the data from European Union official documents and reports from the year of official candidacy to accession, I explore the influence of “the position governments”, the “veto players” and “mobilization of ethnic minorities” on the Europeanization process of minority protection rights in Turkey.
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The purpose of this article is to address the impact of political indicators on the minimum wage adjustment policies in 23 OECD countries. Adopting a multi-theory approach, we aim to answer the question if “minimum wage setting mechanism,... more
The purpose of this article is to address the impact of political indicators on the minimum wage adjustment policies in 23 OECD countries. Adopting a multi-theory approach, we aim to answer the question if “minimum wage setting mechanism, institutionalized schedule of minimum wage adjustment, unionization rate, party ideology of the governments, and social welfare expenditures have impact on the minimum wages adjustment policies”? The findings show that indicators such as institutionalized schedule of minimum wage adjustment, unionization rate and social welfare expenditures have significant impact on the ‘real minimum wage adjustment’ in the selected cases.
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This article assesses the impact of Europeanization on the minority protection policies in Latvia. The diffusion of European norms into European Union and the declaration of the Copenhagen Criteria in 1993 marked the respect for minority... more
This article assesses the impact of Europeanization on the minority protection policies in Latvia. The diffusion of European norms into European Union and the declaration of the Copenhagen Criteria in 1993 marked the respect for minority rights as a condition for EU membership which is defined as part of the “acquiscommunitaire” of the European Union. In this paper, I ask “which domestic factors lead to the Europeanization of minority policies” to analyze the impact of Europeanization on the minority policies in Latvia. Utilizing the data from European Union official documents and reports from the year of official candidacy to accession, I explore the influence of “the position governments” and the “veto players” on the Europeanization process of minority protection rights in Latvia.
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This article assesses the impact of Europeanization on the minority protection policies in Bulgaria. The diffusion of European norms into European Union and the declaration of the Copenhagen Criteria in 1993 marked the respect for... more
This article assesses the impact of Europeanization on the minority protection policies in Bulgaria. The diffusion of European norms into European Union and the declaration of the Copenhagen Criteria in 1993 marked the respect for minority rights as a condition for EU membership, which is defined as part of the “acquis communitaire” of the European Union.[1] In this paper, I ask “which domestic factors lead to the Europeanization of minority policies” to analyze the impact of Europeanization on the minority policies in Bulgaria. Utilizing the data from European Union official documents and reports from the year of official candidacy to accession, I explore the influence of the “significant institutions” and “mobilization of ethnic minorities” on the Europeanization process of minority protection rights in Bulgaria.
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This edited volume introduces the political, social and economic intra-Kurdish dynamics in the Middle East by comparatively analyzing the main actors, their ideas, and political interests. As an ethnic group and a nation in the making,... more
This edited volume introduces the political, social and economic intra-Kurdish dynamics in the Middle East by comparatively analyzing the main actors, their ideas, and political interests. As an ethnic group and a nation in the making, Kurds are not homogeneous and united but rather the Kurdish Middle East is home to various competing political groups, leaderships, ideologies, and interests. Although many existing studies focus on the Kurds and their relations with the nation-states that they populate, few studies analyze the Kurdish Middle East within its own debates, conflicts and interests from a comparative perspective across Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. This book analyzes the intra-Kurdish dynamics with historically-grounded, theoretically-informed, and conceptually-relevant scholarship that prioritizes comparative politics over international relations.
Research Interests: Sociology, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Violence, Middle East Studies, and 22 morePolitical Science, Iranian Studies, Security Studies, Kurdish Studies, Nationalism, History of Iran, Turkish and Middle East Studies, Human Security, Turkey, Secession, Modern Middle East History, Syria, Islam, Kurdish Question in Turkey, Middle East Politics, Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Kurdish Nationalism, Kurdistan, Middle East, Arab world, and Kurdish history
This book aims to address these questions with historically-grounded, theoretically-informed, and conceptually-relevant scholarship that prioritizes comparative politics over international relations. In a nutshell, this project seeks to... more
This book aims to address these questions with historically-grounded, theoretically-informed, and conceptually-relevant scholarship that prioritizes comparative politics over international relations. In a nutshell, this project seeks to explore the Kurdish World in the Middle East within its own debates, conflicts, and interests. Overall, contribute to these debates by exploring key questions in novel ways, by focusing on comparative methodology that serve both to expand the scope of scientific inquiry and put into more solid understanding.
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This chapter analyzes how economic and trade relations among Kurds across borders are promoted via ethnic capital. Assimilation as a means toward an end of homogenization is assumed to minimize transaction costs that would otherwise be... more
This chapter analyzes how economic and trade relations among Kurds across borders are promoted via ethnic capital. Assimilation as a means toward an end of homogenization is assumed to minimize transaction costs that would otherwise be higher under multiethnic and multilinguistic social order. This is why homogenizing national outlook through assimilation has been the conventional governing mechanism of the nation-states in the twentieth century. However, scholars of ethnicity and migration have shown that how ethnic distinctiveness within the conceptual framework of ethnic capital can lead to better socioeconomic mobility among migrant communities. Although the role of ethnic capital among migrant communities have been studied extensively, the ways that how and when ethnic capital would function in a nonmigrant transnational setting—that is a geographical-cultural context within which a single ethnic group dominantly populates and cuts across national borders—have mostly been neglected. By taking the case of Kurdish identity in the Middle East, this article analyzes the role of ethnic capital among Kurds across borders in their trading and labor market activities. It is argued that as assimilation policies by the nation-states decline, opportunity spaces for the use of ethnic capital across borders increases with the outcome of regional economic development.
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This article assesses the impact of Europeanization on the minority protection policies in Turkey. The diffusion of European norms into European Union and the declaration of the Copenhagen Criteria in 1993 marked the respect for minority... more
This article assesses the impact of Europeanization on the minority protection policies in Turkey. The diffusion of European norms into European Union and the declaration of the Copenhagen Criteria in 1993 marked the respect for minority rights as a condition for EU membership, which is defined as part of the “acquis communitaire” of the European Union. [1] In this paper, I ask, “which domestic factors lead to the Europeanization of minority policies” to analyze the impact of Europeanization on the minority policies in Turkey. Utilizing the data from European Union official documents and reports from the year of official candidacy to accession, I explore the influence of “the position governments”, the “veto players” and “mobilization of ethnic minorities” on the Europeanization process of minority protection rights in Turkey. Keywords: ethnic minorities, Europeanization, Kurds, Turkey, AKP [1] Acquis communautaire is a French term meaning, the rights and obligations that EU member ...
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This article assesses the impact of Europeanization on the minority protection policies in Bulgaria. The diffusion of European norms into European Union and the declaration of the Copenhagen Criteria in 1993 marked the respect for... more
This article assesses the impact of Europeanization on the minority protection policies in Bulgaria. The diffusion of European norms into European Union and the declaration of the Copenhagen Criteria in 1993 marked the respect for minority rights as a condition for EU membership, which is defined as part of the “acquis communitaire” of the European Union. [1] In this paper, I ask “which domestic factors lead to the Europeanization of minority policies” to analyze the impact of Europeanization on the minority policies in Bulgaria. Utilizing the data from European Union official documents and reports from the year of official candidacy to accession, I explore the influence of the “significant institutions” and “mobilization of ethnic minorities” on the Europeanization process of minority protection rights in Bulgaria. Keywords: ethnic minorities, Europeanization, Turks, Roma, Bulgaria [1] Acquis communautaire is a French term meaning, the rights and obligations that EU member states s...
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The concept of state-building has acquired political, economic, and social dimensions, all of which are required to explain the state-building patterns in the Middle East. This chapter will examine some of the key theories of... more
The concept of state-building has acquired political, economic, and social dimensions, all of which are required to explain the state-building patterns in the Middle East. This chapter will examine some of the key theories of state-building and how certain theories have been applied to the Middle East and Iraq. I will then consider how these thematic areas relate to the core focus of the analysis: the state-building efforts in Iraqi Kurdistan. I will concentrate on the sociopolitical factors and, in particular, the role of the Turkoman people in this process. The northern part of Iraq, which is known as Iraqi Kurdistan, is a region rich in ethnoreligious diversity. However, the role of the Kurds in state-building, for example, has been well researched. The Turkomans are the third-largest ethnic group in Iraq; yet, we know relatively little about their role in constructing a successful Iraqi Kurdistan. This chapter aims to take a closer look at this group as their participation is vi...