Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
Money is essential for electoral politics yet its use and abuse often raises problems of graft, corruption, and cronyism. To throw new…
In many countries, polling day ends with disputes about ballot-box fraud, corruption, and flawed registers. Which claims are legitimate?…
We investigate the relationship between political networks, weak institutions, and election fraud during the 2010 parliamentary election in…
The prevailing aid orthodoxy works well enough in stable environments, but is ill-equipped to navigate contexts of volatility and fragility…
We examine several hypotheses regarding the determinants and implications of political protest,
motivated by the wave of popular uprisings…
“Turkish democracy is at a turning point,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced after winning a crucial vote in a referendum to…
I no longer recognize Turkey, the country where I was raised and spend most of my time when I am not teaching in the U.S.
It wasn't so…