News

• GLODEM Director Prof. Caner Bakir will join a talk organized by Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, titled “Deinstitutionalization of Central Banking in Türkiye” on May 4, 2022, at 12:15 PM (Pacific). Register now.
• Caner Bakir serves as the 2022 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize Committee Chair.
• For the results of the COST Action Working Group 4 survey on ‘Professionalization and Social Impact of European Political Science’, please click.
• Koç Üniversitesi’nin Küreselleşme, Barış ve Demokratik Yönetişim Araştırma Merkezi (GLODEM), küreselleşme, bölgeselleşme, barış, kamu yönetimi ve siyasası ile yönetişim konularında çalışmalarını sürdürüyor. Bu kapsamdaki bazı güncel sorunları ve çözüm önerilerini konunun uzmanlarıyla akademik bir çerçevede analiz etmek amacıyla GLODEM Çevrimiçi Etkinlik Serisi’ni başlatıyoruz.
• New GLODEM AI & CSS Seminar Series bring together practitioners working on AI usage in various fields and scholars specializing in computational social sciences.
• Koç University and GLODEM hosted the 18th Annual JCPA-ICPA Scholarly Society Virtual Workshop on September 11-12, 2020. The workshop was titled “What Does Comparative Policy Analysis Have to Do with the Structure, Institution and Agency Debate?”. It was conducted on Zoom.

Call for Papers

GLODEM Political Economy Graduate Conference

GLODEM invites graduate paper proposals on national, comparative or international political economy to be held on the March 15th at Koc University.

Proposals including title, 300 words abstract, three keywords and author details must be submitted by the March 1th, 2024 through glodem@ku.edu.tr

Selected papers will be informed by March 8th, 2024.

Format: The author is given 20 minutes to present his or her paper, leaving approximately 10 minutes for questions, comments and discussion from the audience. Authors should make sure that their presentation will not be longer than 20 minutes.

Blog / Report

Marleen Brans, Arco Timmermans & Athanassios Gouglas

This report focuses on the policy advisory roles of European political scientists, the central theme in the activities of WG 4. The report is structured as follows. First, we briefly introduce the Working Group 4 (WG 4) research agenda, and proceed with a short note on the design and properties of the survey. Second, we present the themes of WG 4. This includes the conceptual framework developed by WG 4 to analyse the different possible types of advisory activity of political scientists in Europe, as well as the main results of the survey part in which the advisory roles are addressed. The report ends with conclusions and recommendations.

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