The last two decades witnessed a significant rise in the use of behavioural insights in the design and successful implementation of public policies. This creative method of policy design and implementation, also known as “nudging”, makes use of biases in individual decision-mak

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 uzmanl

In this talk, Dr. Canca will explain the scope and focus of AI ethics as a discipline and how its concerns materialize within the innovation cycle. She will introduce a model to integrate AI ethics into the innovation process and into the organizational structure. And finally,

Countries like China, North Korea, Pakistan, India, Russia, and Iran frequently test-launch missiles in public. Many experts are concerned with these tests for the sake of global security. Surprisingly, until now, no scientific studies explored whether a country’s more frequent

This study investigates the participation of China and Russia in the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM). In which policy initiatives have these two countries participated? In which initiatives have they taken the lead? Building on the club theory and international relations litera

“Today, AI is eating the World”. With the development of AI, we are witnessing a series of fundamental changes ranging from driverless vehicles to image processing; from natural language processing, to optimization problems; from robotic systems to “drones”; or from speech reco

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The talk will take to its compass, the legal effects, and new legal questions deriving from the usage and the development of artificial intelligence technologies. For the quest for effective legal answers with this regard, some questions are vital to be asked: “Why do we need b

In societies that are horizontally fragmented between identity-based social groups, electoral competition is often motivated by the desire to use public office to advance group interests. In a research with Cem Oyvat and Hasan Tekgüç, we focus on the case of Turkey to study gro

Burcu Meltem Arık’s presentation will present recent policy evaluations on governance and funding, students and access to education, teachers, the content of education, educational environments, and educational outcomes. Her talk will underline the recommendation that child wel

In this talk, a brief introduction to the game research domain will be presented with recent applications and challenges from the reinforcement learning domain and serious games—games that have ulterior motives rather than entertainment.

Estimating a counter-factual in which a treatment did not occur allows political science researchers to better understand the effect of an intervention. To date, the most prominent attempt in the literature has been the introduction of the synthetic control method. However, thi