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S. Erdem Aytaç

@seaytac.bsky.social

Assoc. Prof. of Political Science at Koç University. Research on political behavior, political participation, electoral accountability. Yale PhD. PI, ERC StG DEPOLARIZE https://sites.google.com/view/seaytac

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🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇
🔗 politicsexperiment.com

16.07.2025 14:06 — 👍 38    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
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🚨 We're hiring!
Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment.
Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊
www.gesis.org/en/institute...

16.07.2025 06:09 — 👍 51    🔁 55    💬 0    📌 1

Çok tebrikler!

16.06.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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🧵 THREAD: Can a short online intervention help defend democracy against partisan polarization?

In our new study - just published in the @bjpols.bsky.social - my colleagues and I tested this question across 33 countries 🌍 with over 41,000 participants 🧑‍🤝‍🧑.

Here’s what we found 👇

24.04.2025 11:17 — 👍 172    🔁 69    💬 11    📌 8
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Populist Appeals, Emotions, and Political Mobilization - Selim Erdem Aytaç, Ali Çarkoğlu, Ezgi Elçi, 2025 Populist politicians frequently employ anti-establishment appeals in their discourse by targeting an imagined or real power elite. Do such appeals have a mobili...

Our article, "Populist Appeals, Emotions, and Political Mobilization," with Erdem Aytaç and Ali Çarkoğlu, now has volume and page numbers. It is also open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @seaytac.bsky.social @absjournal.bsky.social

20.04.2025 13:03 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Less than two weeks left to apply to the #ISPPAcademy in Prague! See link for more information:

ispp.org/resources/ac...

06.02.2025 10:19 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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CSES Announcement - The First Advance Release of CSES Module 6, containing seven election studies, is now available. The dataset and documentation may be downloaded from the CSES website for free.

For more information please visit:
cses.org/2024/12/17/m...

19.12.2024 22:43 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Assistant Professor in International Relations | KU Jobs

My department is hiring! This is a junior position, preferably, though not necessarily, with a focus on CP or IPE fields. I am not on the committee but feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...

14.11.2024 09:33 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Assistant Professor in International Relations | KU Jobs

My department is hiring! This is a junior position, preferably, though not necessarily, with a focus on CP or IPE fields. I am not on the committee but feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...

14.11.2024 09:33 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
DEPOLARIZE_postdoc_US.pdf

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨1-year post-doc position available in my ERC project DEPOLARIZE to be based at the University of Chicago !!! Start date is January 2025 (with some flexibility), more information available at drive.google.com/file/d/1_xYS...

08.10.2024 13:44 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
“Faculty Position in International Relations” | KU Jobs

📢🚨 My department is hiring!! Assistant Prof. level, open to all subfields but IPE and Comparative Politics scholars are especially encouraged. Feel free to reach me for questions and please spread the word!! jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...

01.11.2023 17:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Check out this new special issue in Electoral Studies: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/elec... It contains 7 cool articles on the nature and causes of AP - using observational and experimental data, focusing on measurement, elites and ideology, and an important theoretical piece as well.

29.09.2023 09:50 — 👍 93    🔁 55    💬 2    📌 5

Could you add me as well?

26.09.2023 06:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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