@yavuzmehmet.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Salzburg. PhD in Political Science from the Central European University. Research interests: politics of trade,authoritarian regimes text-as-data, causal inference, and inevitably Turkey.
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I am introducing the new dataset on Parliamentary Elites in Authoritarian Regimes (PEAR). It includes information on the composition of parliaments in 819 legislative terms in 130 autocracies from 1945 - based on over 200k individual-level observations.
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๐บIn China, "Topical Debate Programs" bring officials, experts & citizens together to air concerns.
โก๏ธJ Chen, Y Wang, M Zhang & X Zhou show these programs boost trust in local government and deliberation can matter even with controlled agendas www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
@cpsjournal.bsky.social
30.09.2025 07:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Many thanks, Felix! I hope everything is going well.
30.09.2025 07:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Excited for this! If you work on democracy or representation in multilevel Europe, sign up via your MyECPR account! @ecpr.bsky.social
23.09.2025 09:41 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We want to thank the @fwf-at.bsky.social, @erc.europa.eu, and @ecprsgir.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social for their support. We thank all paper givers and other participants for their time and effort. We hope that this workshop will leave a mark on all papers presented. Thank you for joining us! ๐งต3/4
23.09.2025 13:22 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0We had 12 papers, collectively authored by researchers from around 20 universities at different career stages and from across the globe. We were also very fortunate to welcome a stellar group of participants without papers. Clearly, LLMs are on many political scientistsโ minds these days. ๐งต2/4
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Last Friday (Sept. 19), @andduer.bsky.social, @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social and I had the great pleasure of hosting an excellent workshop at @unisalzburg.bsky.social on how to use Large Language Models #LLMs to boost International Relations research. A short ๐งต1/4
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New post for POP ๐ข
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It was a pleasure to publish this article written by the editors of this amazing project @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & @cerpintaxt.bsky.social ย
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In light of recent crackdowns against the opposition in Turkey, I hope these findings will be informative not only to social scientists but also to democrats in Turkey and around the world.
08.09.2025 18:21 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0With this study, I show that crises change how and to what extent authoritarian regimes use ideological legitimation claims to justify their rule, challenging static understandings of ideology in much of the literature.
08.09.2025 18:20 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0โ๏ธ In the short run, authoritarian regimes increase their use of ideological legitimation claims after a crisis.
โ๏ธ In the long run, they deploy ideological claims more strategically against regime outsidersโsuch as opposition partiesโto demonize them.
Using the July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey for causal identification, I analyze a novel dataset of Erdoฤanโs speeches (2014โ2022) with topic models, dictionaries, and word embeddings, combined with interrupted time-series analysis. The findings show:
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Excited to announce the publication of my article in Comparative Political Studies on how crises shape the ideological legitimation strategies of authoritarian regimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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