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This course is designed to provide fundamental methodological issues in social sciences, and more importantly, it aims the master students to carry research oriented towards their M.S. thesis and write down, present and submit their proposals. Students have to submit their proposals at the end of the course, and the successful completion of an acceptable thesis proposal is the most important requirement of the course.

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This course is intended to familiarize the students with the major models of state-economy and state-capital-labour relations in the advanced capitalist systems of Europe, with a specific emphasis on "Anglo-Saxon", "organized market economy" and "state-centered" models. With this framework, the course also analyzes the key institutional structures of industrial relations, corporate governance and their relation to the welfare state, and the changes produced by globalization and European integration.

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The course aims to map the field of popular cultural practices in Turkey. Tracing the historical formation and transformation of Turkish popular culture, it examines the interplay of culture, power and subalternity. Particular emphasis is put on the distinction and relation between the official-high culture and the folk-popular culture, the formation of cultural distinctions and hierarchies, popular representations of the state, subalternity vis-à-vis power, and the questions of legitimacy and cultural hegemony.

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This course is designed to provide a critical survey of recent developments. It analyzes the state as a new focus of interest in the context of economic liberalization and globalisation processes. It focuses, in particular, on the changing role of the state in the course of political and economic transformations taking place in contemporary capitalist societies.

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The course aims to examine the traditional structures of media systems challenged by the arrival of cable, satellite broadcasting and the other types of electronic media. Following a review of the historical development of the media systems and the normative theories in relation to the social and political systems, major issues and themes prevailing in different countries are considered.

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This course involves the study of the major political ideas representing the most influential currents of thought. It confines itself to solely political theory and philosophical systems with special emphasis on the foundations of contemporary political thinking.

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This course is oriented towards a review of different schools and/or theorists of public administration theory from its genesis to contemporary ones. Special emphasis is given to methodology problem in this area.

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This course discusses the concepts of political sociology in the light of recent literature and critically analyzes their theoretical/empirical significance. Some of the topics of concern are the role of individual in society and politics, alienation in industrial society, middle class politics and its relevance to present day political systems, theories of mass society, the role of ideology in shaping the society and politics, the nature of power in industrial society, and corporatism and neo-corporatism.

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This course examines the resurgence and persistence of ethnic conflicts and ethnic phenomena in the world by comparing and constrasting certain representative cases. Firstly, a general discussion on the concept of ethnicity is made by focusing upon certain identity factors such as race, gender, class, tribe, language, nationality and religion. Secondly, theories and concepts utilised in the study of ethnic conflict and ethnic political behaviour are analyzed. Lastly, earlier discussions are applied to certain cases chosen by the students.

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This course primarily focuses on modern theoretical debates within the confines of political science. Its main topics are structuralism, functionalism, systems approach, theories of underdevelopment, modernization theory, and the modern debates on the state.

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This course is designed to provide graduate students with a solid understanding of historical and theoretical perspectives on the evolution and practice of social policy. For the purposes of the course, social policy is defined as regulatory and direct forms of public intervention into the market distribution of resources with intent to affect societal welfare. The course aims to familiarize students with the underlying causes, dynamics, changing forms and political economic outcomes of social policy. It starts with an introduction to the substance, key concepts (i.e. social welfare, social wage, equality, equity, redistribution, welfare state, poverty) and policy issues (social security, social services, health, education) encompassed within the discipline of social policy. It then proceeds with an evaluation of the major theories and perspectives (i.e. political liberalism, economic liberalism, conservatism, social democracy, Marxism, social democracy, feminism, anti-racism) that have both framed and explained the historical contexts in which social issues and policies were developed. Following a concise overview of the archaic social policies in the 19th-century Europe, the course continues with an evaluation of the emergence of welfare capitalism, different kinds of welfare regimes instituted in advanced capitalist countries, as well as the causes underlying such differences. It then focuses on the recent transformations in the conceptions of social rights, and social policies in the global political economy, and evaluates the prospects for European Social Policy.

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This course focuses on the analysis of various historical forms of the state based on the views of different schools of thought. Also, a considerable part of the course dwells upon the modern debates on the controversial aspects and functions of the same phenomenon.

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This course is designed to provide graduate students of political science with a survey of the Latin American politics at both theoretical and empirical levels of analysis. It begins with an examination of the political and economic developments in Latin American societies during their capitalist development and state formation and their legacy for the state-society relations. The course then proceeds to the analysis of the rise of authoritarianism, transitions to democratic rule, the dynamics of economic liberalization, and the challenges of democratic consolidation in major countries of the region. Specific topic to be covered include the nature of the Latin American state, the role of militaries, political parties, civil societies and the impact of the market reforms on social and political stability.

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This course attempts to critically analyze these available alternative ways and means in service provision for local governments that are under fiscal constraints. It emphasizes pros and cons of public and private, mixed alternative provisions, and delivery systems at the local level.

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This course analyzes the demographic, economic social, legal and institutional framework of industrial relations in Turkey from an internationally comparative perspective.

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This course aims to provide an analysis of the fundamental aspects of Turkish Politics and political parties within the Turkish political system. The course is composed of three parts. The first part deals with the factors affecting political structure in Turkey such as ideology, religion, culture, economy, development and consolidation of democracy. The second part deals with the political parties. The third part is about the analysis of various criteria of the voting behaviour such as ethnicity class and gender.

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Political economy is a major perspective in understanding the media of modern capitalism, which extensively operate as "cultural industries". The structure and operational logic of these organizations exhibit both similarities with and differences from other industries. Their common features with other areas of commodity production signify the fact that cultural industries are increasingly integrated into the general industrial structure and they explicitly operate within the field of economics. However, it is also obvious that the commodities they produce are extensively divorced from the commodity form produced in classical sectors of manufacturing industries. In other words, the commodities produced by cultural industries appear as symbols, which can be evaluated as one of the primary means in organizing the images and discourses through which people signify their own or others´ life. Through introducing the main perspectives in the political economy of communication and conveying how political economies approached to particular problem areas within the field, the ultimate objective of this course is to present a critical analytical framework of understanding the relation between symbolic and economic dimensions of cultural commodity production within contemporary capitalism.

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The course is designed to provide students with analytical tools to conceptualise the field of popular cultural practices. It represents a critical review of contemporary theoretical positions on popular culture, particularly the ones developed by the Frankfurt School, neo-Gramscian Marxism and Birmingham School, Bakhtin, de Certeau, and Bourdieu. A brief introduction to the theory of ideology, with which most students are likely to be unfamiliar, will be made as it constitutes the basic analytical premise of popular culture studies. Special attention will be paid to the interplay of ideology, culture and power, the transformations of the field of cultural practices, and the contestatory character of popular cultural forms. Among the themes to be explored are the elite/mass or high/popular culture binaryism, the dichotomies of resistance versus domination and opposition versus ideological incorporation, the so-called postmodern collapse of cultural hierarchies, the pragmatics of diversionary practices in everyday life, and the politics of cultural transgression. Within this context, various popular cultural forms, texts and narratives (e.g. popular music, sports, and folktales) will be referred to as well.

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The main purpose of this course is to analyse various factors that constitute Turkish politics, and the political parties within the Turkish political system. The course has three parts: first, Turkish political system with respect to factors affecting the political structure in Turkey, such as ideology, religion, culture, economy, development and consolidation of democracy. Second, the political parties within the Turkish political system are examined. Finally, the analysis of voting behaviour in terms of various criteria such as ethnicity, class, gender are discussed.

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This is an advanced course dealing with the key issues and debates over the relationship between ideas and social practices with an attempt to clarify the affinities binding disparate theorists who seek to comprehend the shape and prospects of modern social formations.

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This course is a detailed reading of the major works of Hannah Arendt. It analyzes the influence of Arendt on the debate between liberals and communitarians, critical theory, theories of social action and public sphere, citizenship, social movements and the crisis of modernity.

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This course will be devoted to a slow reading of one central book by Aristoteles, Kant and Hegel by evaluating their relevance for major problematics of contemporary political thought. In the course the realms of moral choice and ethnical judgement on the one hand, and political decision-making and the parameters of order-maintenance, on the other are analyzed. The course also focuses on various intellectual attempts of overcoming this split by heavy use of the works of these philosophers.

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This course is designed to encompass a detailed overall view of the field of political sociology. To this aim, fundamental issues and areas of political sociology as well as the contributions of some of the path-breakers of the discipline will be discussed with reference to both their original works and interpretative material. In this context, Marx and Weber's work and state, economy and politics; Durkheim and de-Tocqueville's contribution on civil society and politics as well as their respective neo-versions will be reviewed. In the second part of the course basic forms of political rule (democratic, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes) and political participation, political parties and partisanship and political culture will be taken up with specific reference to contemporary world and Turkish cases.

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In this course, in each semester different issues on the theory of public administration is selected and elaborated in detail. Topics range from "locus" to "focus" of public administration theory.

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The aim of the course is to provide the students an elaborate study on the issues that advancements in technology bring to organizational life.

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This course deals with select policy areas, and analyzes each in the light of the theoretical framework built in the course 675. It further specifies processes involved in the policy Analysis and Evaluation of Policy Performance. The policy areas are selected from different socio-economic, political and administrative domains, focusing at the end on some specific Turkish Cases.

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The aim of this course is to analyze the large and comprehensive field of political theory. It discusses and analyzes a selected field of interest within one or more theoretical approaches in political science, depending on the selected field of interest of the student.

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This course is about the mainstream debates, topics and thinkers of eighteenth-century western political thought.

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In this course the students are introduced to the main debates about geography and space and the ways in which space takes part in the constitution of political and economic processes and vice-versa. In the course main schools of thought in the field such as the Chicago School, Weberian and Marxist approaches are also analyzed.

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This course basically aims to provide the student the necessary analytical tools in the field of comparative government. In the first section of the course, the students analyze the three main branches of state; the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary in a general and comparative perspective. In the second section, countries chosen by the students according to their own preference and/or areas of interest are analyzed in order to contribute to the term projects to be prepared by each student.

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This is a course in which ethical issues in public administration theory and practice are elaborated. Emphasis is on both the philosophical grounds and the "ethical code" for public administrators.

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This is a course on the twentieth century critical thought. It may include specific debates and/or advanced research on Frankfurt school, post-structuralism, post-modernism and a variety of topics on the twentieth century Marxist thought.

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There has been an increasing appeal of constructivism; in the fields of political science, sociology and international relations theory. Constructivism, generally, is associated with the issues of politics of identity and the cultural dimensions of political processes and the international relations. Moreover, the theoretical and methodological problems inherent to this approach concerning the ontological and epitemological issues such as cultural relativism and epitemological pluralism are also widely discussed within the philosophy of (social) science(s). This course aims to engage with this literature from a critical perspective while encouraging the students to carry out studies combining the theoretical concerns with the possible case studies.

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This course is a critical evaluation of the theory and practice of radical democracy. The main focus will be on identity politics, new social movements and new forms of participation in contemporary societies.

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This course is to be offered to those students who have an interest in the newly emerged Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzistan and Turkmenistan. It aims to provide an in-dept analysis on an advanced level about the history of the area, and the socio-economic, political, cultural and religion factors shaping these countries.

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This course is designed to analyze public policy by giving special emphasis to the role played by public bureaucracy and the intricate interrelations between the policy making and other relevant actors. It provides an in-dept examination of social, economic, administrative and political environment in which the state operates. Particular emphasis is on the significance attributed to public bureaucracy in the complex and dynamic contextual framework of public policy.

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This course aims to clarify how ideologies are used in politics with respect to different approaches to political behaviour. Its focus is how and why individuals develop certain ideologies and how these ideologies are reflected on their political behaviour. Main political and sociological approaches to ideology and political behaviour are also examined. The course also includes discussions on such concepts as modernity, post-modernity, and globalism.

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In this course advanced topics in policy-making process are studied.

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This course deals with the so-called dialectic of law and transgression that has been conceptualized in many different and offen contradictory ways. It refers to the theoretical frameworks developed by Bataille, Zizek, Foucault, Stallybross and White, Kristeva, Derrida etc., with a specific attention to certain notions such as "law-making and law-preserving violence", "inherent transgression", "carnivalesque economics of transgression" and "transgression as the disavowed foundation of law".

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This course analyzes organizational culture as one of the major issues for the organizational analysis. In this course the notion of culture is taken both as an organizational variable from the perspective of the administrators and a constituent of societal life from the "organizational sociology" perspective.

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This is an introductory course offered by the Department for the students of Business Administration. The course aims to provide and overview of some of the basic concepts of law and Turkish legal system. It focuses on some major issues such as characteristics of law, functions of law and branches of law.

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This course examines the political developments between the French Revolution, 1789, and the Great War, 1918. During these two centuries the political scene of Europe was transformed drastically. The 19th century witnessed the destruction of the ancien regime which was under continuous pressure from the emerging capitalism and the bourgeoisie class. The age of revolution was followed by the rise of nationalism, which created a new European state system. The evolving political events, finally led to the WWI, which caused the collapse of three empires in Europe and to the expansion of the European nation state system. In this course, our purpose is to analyze the new cultural forms expressing these changes and the major economic dynamics that influenced this period.

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This course provides the introductory conceptual framework for the study of politics. Definition of the basic concepts of authority, power, sovereignty, legitimacy, and ideology will be followed by the examination of major political ideologies; classical liberalism, conservatism, Marxism and fascism. This course also studies political regimes and systems, pressure groups, political parties, elections and voting behavior.

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Continuation of ADM.1121 It focuses on the analysis of the major 20th century ideologies, such as democratic socialism, new right, new labour, environmentalism, fundamentalism, feminism.

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This is an introductory course in Public Administration which aims to introduce the student to the basic concepts of the field. First the concept of administration and organization with their relevant issues are discussed within a public context, and then they are related to Turkish Public Administration system. The course also aims to link
theory and practice so as to provide a meaningful totality.

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This is an introductory course exploring issues of culture, social institutions and social relations from a sociological viewpoint. It aims to familiarize non-sociology majors (particularly students specialising in political science, economics and international relations) with the fundamental concepts and terminology of sociological analysis. In this context, topics such as culture, socialisation, family, marriage and divorce, gender, ethnicity, stratification and mobility, mass-media, education, religion and urbanisation are covered with the aim of comprehending the “world in change” through a comparative and historical perspective. The course also tries to relate the personal to the social and is particularly sensitive to such pressing concerns of contemporary life as gender issues.

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For most of human history, humans lived in small groups who hunted and gathered their food, but around 8,000 B.C., things changed. Humans developed agriculture, settled in urban communities and eventually built huge empires, created religious institutions and explored the planet. In many areas of life, civilization brought about striking improvements and innovations. On the other hand, oppression, exploitation, and massive human suffering accompanied civilizations.

The goal of this course is to provide you with a foundation for understanding the world in which we live, keeping in mind humanity’s accomplishments as well as failures. Learning about history is not just memorizing a sequence of events, or a bunch of facts and dates; the point is to critically examine continuity and change over time. The large scope of this course will encourage more synthesis of ideas and integration of knowledge than thorough information on particular topics.

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The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the basic concepts and methods of statistics. Issues to be covered are data collection, measurement of central tendency and variability, probability and distribution, estimation, and simple regression and correlation.

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This two-semester course aims to give the students a broad perspective on the developments in the history of political philosophy. It starts with the pre-Socratic philosophers of nature and Socratic criticism of conventions through dialogue. Following the significant turn brought by the Platonic-Aristotelian tradition, the course examines Hellenistic worldviews and medieval outlook to political affairs. Some of the themes that are surveyed in this course are early philosophical reflection on nature and human essence, time and matter, theory of forms, questions of justice, equality and freedom, practices concerning the self and the good life, and, the rising or declining significance attributed to political participation.

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This course is the continuation of ADM 2121 History of Political Thought I. It focuses on the major works of the political thinkers of Renaissance and modern eras. It analyses Renaissance Humanism, strategic approach to political action, scientific and intellectual revolution of the 17th Century, the birth of liberalism, the rise of democratic theory, modernity and politics, the conception of historicity and the philosophy of life.

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This course provides a conceptual introduction to the field of Comparative Government. After briefly analyzing the legislative, executive and judiciary branches of government, it studies the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Russian Federation.

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This course critically examines the capacity of the public sector to efficiently, effectively and equitably allocation of public resources, critically reviews the public sector financial resource management processes and strategies, and critically analyses the management implications of contemporary financial resource management imperatives. A key element of the course is the budgeting approaches adopted internationally.

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The main objective of this course is to introduce the students to the basic concepts of social research and to provide them with an understanding of the relationship between theory, research and empirical evidence. Students will be introduced to a variety of research methods that are important to empirical political and administrative research such as survey research, observation, experimentation, content analysis and aggregate data analysis. The course also aims to provide the students with an understanding of the major approaches to the study of social, political and administrative phenomenon from a critical standpoint.

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This is an introductory course in which basic concepts of Turkish Law and the preliminary issues in Turkish Legal system are studied in order to provide an introduction to the legal concepts and institutions and to build a sound basis for the other courses dealing with legal studies. Some of the topics covered in this course are characteristics of law as compared to other rules of social conduct, functions of law, basic legal concepts and legal institutions, sources of Turkish Law, the court system in Turkey, capacity to act and to have rights and obligations and representation.

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This course surveys a conceptual and historical introduction to constitutional government and law. Within that framework, it also examines the constitutional movements of the Ottoman Empire and the early Republican period. In the final part of the course, the 1961 and 1982 Turkish Constitutions are analyzed with a comparative outlook.

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This is an introductory course offered to the students of the Department of Economics. In this course, basic concepts of law and preliminary matters are studied. Following the general legal concepts and institutions of law, an overview of the Turkish Legal System and interaction of law and economics are covered. The course also deals with interrelated areas such as economic and social rights recognized in international legal documents and competition law.

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Introduction to legal concepts, social environment and legal institutions by analyzing, evolution of legal systems, and societies, formation of modern legal society; actual effects and impact of legal issues; encounters of
20% 30% 25% 15%individuals with legal conflicts; fundamental rights; Sources of laws; charters, constitutions, statutes, customs and usages, governmental regulations by laws; rights, obligations and privileges of individuals; the violations of individual rights by government; abuse of governmental powers, checks and balances of government, forms of government; separation of church and state; separation of powers, Executive, Legislative and Judiciary powers, public and private laws, international treaties; legal entities, law of European Union.

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This course is a critical survey of the major theories and literature in comparative politics, the logic of cross-national inquiry, and the major concepts and approaches.

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This course is a general analytical framework for the comparative study of societies which are going through different phases of economic and political development.

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This course aims to familiarize the students with basic issues of political participation. A basic distinction is made between conventional means of participation such as political parties, interest and pressure groups, elections and voting on the one hand, and unconventional means of participation such as terrorism, new social movements, post-modernity and cyber democracy on the other.

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This course aims to introduce and discuss changing conceptions of modernity in social and political theory from the mid-19th / early 20th to the early 21st century. The mediating dynamic of change between the conceptions of “early” and “late” modernity is described through changes in the political-economic organization of capitalism. This can be summed up as the transformation of nationally organized capitalism towards a disorganized, global capitalism. In the “new” sociology of the late-modern societies it is argued that contemporary societies take new forms and undergo new experiences as they are exposed to global uncertainties and complexity arising from the decomposition of “organized capitalism.” This course is designed with the expectation that the students will have a comprehensive understanding of changing forms of modernity from its inception to its novel forms in contemporary times.

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This course is designed for providing the students with a general scheme of Turkish politics between 1923-1960 by looking at both continuities and discontinuities with the Ottoman past. It also analyses several other basic themes such as modernization nationalism the construction of nation state secularism, military and politics and democracy.

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This course follows ADM 3429 chronologically, and tells the political, social and economic history of contemporary Turkey from 1946 onwards. The DP era, the coups detat of 1960, 1971 and 1980 are all analyzed as part and parcel of a process which can best be described as economic development and re-structuring of the Turkish economy and society.

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The aim of this course is to introduce you to the literature on Public Policy and to help you to develop a refined approach to the working of the government. In other words, we are interested in the
state at work. The course, first, justifies the need to study public policy and gives a broader overview of what the terms ´policy process´ and ´policy analysis´ stand for. In doing so, it also concentrates on existing theories of the policy process. Next, we will have a closer look at the policy-making and formation process. In particular, we will examine the question of who makes public policy, the patterns of participation to policy-making, as well as the role played by institutions in this process, as facilitators or obstacles. Finally, we will discuss the instruments of public policy adopted by the government during the policy process. Especially, ´regulation´ and ´fiscal instruments´ of public policy

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This course offers a critical evaluation of the main trends and developments in classical, neo-classical, modern and post-modern theories of organization. The course also intends to analyze the works of prominent theorists and general principles characterizing various schools of thought.

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This course extends to two semesters and it deals with legal issues concerning administration. The basic focus of the course is the nature, subject matter and general characteristics of the Turkish Administrative Law. The course also deals with administrative organization and power, and general fundamental principles of administrative law.

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This course is the continuation of ADM 3429 Administrative Law I. In this course the themes formerly introduced are to be elaborated with a practical intend.

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This course is an attempt to explore the main currents of 19. and 20. century political thought in Europe or on Europe. We will particularly focus on how critical thinking has developed and led to diverse conceptions of European modernity in the eyes of various thinkers of these two centuries. This course is a reading intensive seminar and your active participation is the key to its success and your success. This means doing the readings (carefully and reflectively) attending every class period and participating in class discussion.

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The main aim of this course is to introduce master students with the political economy of Russia and Security Affairs in Eurasia after the dissolution of Soviet Union. Eurasia will be studied with a special focus on Russia and its role in the related security matters in Eurasia. The course is split into three parts: 1.Studying the modern Russian politics and economy as a factor of the change in Eurasia. 2.Evaluation of the geopolitics of Eurasia and the interests of the involved global actors 3. Understanding the security concerns of the regional states in Eurasia.

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After a brief introduction to the different methodological approaches in the field of international political economy so as to highlight the alternative conceptualizations of the state-market relationships, this course will undertake a comparative analysis of alternative strategies of capitalist development and/or modes of integration into the world economy with special reference to Latin America, South and East Asia.
There will be one mid-term exam and final exam. There is no single textbook which covers all the material that will be dealt with in this course. It is important that students get acquainted with the reading material. They may also prepare an optional short term-paper. Their contribution and performance during the classes will be taken into account at the end of the term.

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The aim of this course is to describe and analyze immigration policy as practiced in Germany today, found its basis in the fifties and sixties, especially along two sectors: On the one hand in the areas of politics and law. Rules about migration, residency and work permits were passed at a very early date,
long before the employment of foreign workers on a large scale was ever even considered. On the other hand in the area of economics, e.g. the actual opening of the Western German labor market to foreign workers. These two decades also illustrate a certain amount of continuity about the treatment of foreigners. This continues today along the administrative as well as the political level. As an example, one might mention at this point the regulations concerning residency permits, characterized by vagueness and complete flexibility when being interpretated and executed by German foreign authorities.

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The aim of this course is to familiarize the students with the important issues in the political life of contemporary Western Europe. In this context, the course focuses on the structure and function of nation states, the development of their institutions, their autonomy in relation to specific social, economic and political forces, their international contradictions, tensions and dynamics of social change.

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The course aims to familiarize students with social developments and politics of the Ottoman Empire from 1703 to 1922. While there is an introduction about the early modern era, the emphasis is on the nineteenth-century trends and events. The last decades of the Empire will also be discussed in order to help the students comprehend some of the dynamics of the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. In addition to significant historical events and key political figures, different perspectives offered to understand the historical trajectory in question are also discussed and analyzed throughout the semester.

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This course aims to analyze Turkey s ability to address new issues and challenges in the post-cold war period characterized by globalization, regional instabilities and integration and fragmentation in the foreign policy context. The main themes to be focused are decision-making process of Turkish foreign policy, international context of decision-making in the age of globalization, domestic context of decision-making, administration of foreign policy-search for security, administration of foreign policy and its normative, objective, domestic and bureaucratic politics of integration into European Union, administration of Turkey foreign economic relations, administration of Turkish foreign policy issues related to Ottoman Legacy.

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This course is the continuation of ADM.495 Administration of Turkish Foreign Policy I

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The aim of the course is to understand the ambiguity concerning the role of press and broadcasting in politics. It analyses the nature and role of public opinion, the dynamics of the public opinion process, analysis of the numerous factors which shape or influence opinion, an evaluation of the mass media of communication (their role as molders and reflectors of public opinion and as instruments of propaganda, their structure of control, their performance), public opinion measurement, the competence of public opinion, the nature of propaganda, and consideration of several important types of propaganda (political propaganda, public relations, and advertising).

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This course is a senior seminar in political theory. The purpose of this course is to explore one of the key questions of the modern age: the question of freedom.
The centrality of the notion of freedom and its definitive role in the political arena is undisputable. Nonetheless freedom appears as a specifically modern question. From the 17th century onward thinkers, who formed the grand narrative of Western European political thought, have dealt with the question of how to define political freedom: Is it the freedom of the individual (Hobbes) or the freedom in harmony with the general will (Rousseau)? Does the concept of freedom change from one culture to another (Tocqueville) or should it defined by the universal assumptions of political liberalism (Mill)? Can human mind conceive freedom a priori (Kant) or does freedom reveal itself in human history (Hegel)? Is political freedom tantamount to human emancipation (Marx) or should one consider different/unconventional paths to pursue political freedom (Derrida)? The exploration of such dynamic and differing approaches to the question of freedom through the reading of political theory texts, is one of the primary aims of this course.

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In this course the concept of democracy is studied from its genesis to our day. The analysis includes different theories and aims to provide the student the ability of critically comprehending and evaluating the practice(s) of democracy in the contemporary world.

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The rationale for re-proposing of this course is may social scientifically grounded opinion of felt need for integration of a course –indeed a series of courses- focused on the development of the working class in Turkey to the undergraduate curriculum of our department in order to stimulate the development of an awareness of the necessity of grounding the academic formation of political science students on the reality and knowledge of social classes as the broadest and deepest socio-historical determining bases of politics in class societies. In the first part of the treatment of the proposed course subjects, a preliminary introduction to the major theoretical perspectives on social classes; the major modes of working class organizations, actions and ideologies; and a brief history of the emergence and development of the working class will be realized. However, the main focus of the course will be an exploration of the general and distinctive conditions of the development of the working class, and the major trends in the working class organizations, actions legislations and ideologies in the Ottoman and Republican Turkey in an integrated perspective. Three other areas of the focuses of the treatment of the subject will be on the macro-societal conditions of the working class at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: (1) the impacts of the scientific-technological revolution, (2) the third crisis of capitalism, and its neo-liberal global restructuration (globalization of capitalism) and (3) the capitalist restoration of the etatist-bureauctarictic socialism on the working class movement in the world in general and in Turkey particular.
In the exposition of the treatment of the subject, I intent to apply an integrated use of historical and analytical methods as an appropriate methodological perspective.
The preparation of a term-paper and active participation in group discussion on the term-paper presentation will be principal requirements in the learning process of the course.

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This course is composed of two main sections. In the first section, the role of political parties is discussed in relation to the political system and social structure. In this section main issues of interest are social class, interest articulation, election systems, parliamentary democracy, one party states, and the relations of social groups with the state. In the second section, political party as an institution is studied. The subject matters of this section are party organization, leadership, membership, fractions, inter party democracy, and the relationships of party structure and ideology are.

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The objective of this course is to provide for students of political science a theoretically informed analysis of democratization in Turkey, with specific reference to the impact of the relations with the EU and Europeanization process. It is the intention of this course to emphasize the interplay between domestic and international forces (here mainly the EU) in the democratization process in Turkey, in addition to the general objective of providing a theoretical framework and a comparative perspective to the challenges of democratization in Turkey. This course will analyze the political reform process in Turkey as well as the challenges in institution-building and in democratizing the political culture at mass and elite levels.

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This course maps the ideological discourses in modern Turkey with special emphasis on their representations of capitalist modernity, state and the `people`. It will mainly provide a discourse analysis on the political and cultural writings of a number of major intellectual figures from different ideological perspectives. Tracing the intellectual legacy of ideological discourses including Kemalism, nationalism, socialism, conservatism, Islamism and liberalism. The intertextual relations between those discourses and their role in the constellation of social and political forces will also be examined.

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This course aims to introduce and discuss the theoretical and practical interrelation of politics, art and visual culture from the 20th century to this day. The course is divided into five parts. We will first tackle some key theoretical texts that discuss the relationship betwcen politics, visual culture and art. Then we will move on to the visual politics of the nation-states and visual representations of Cold War ideologies. in Part III, we will accentuate the political perspective of avant-garde practices and the gendered nature of visual politics. Later on, we will scrutinize the usage of visual practices in political protests. And in the final part, we will focus on the neoliberal political relations behind the contemporary art scene, and the politics of museum display.

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This course reviews the use of information technology in public administration, particularly the Internet, and its implications for public administration in general, public organizations, and the citizens. The course is meant to provide a historical, technical and practical framework for students of public administration to better understand the opportunities, challenges, and limitations associated with e-government and the use of technology in public administration. We will particularly focus on the concept and applications of e-government and will cover related administrative, organizational, technological and major policy issues in this context, including a discussion of e-government in Turkey. In addition, the course will provide an overview of governmental web design and creation, and case study examples of different e-government applications around the world. Classes will be held in lecture and discussion format.

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This course first introduces urban politics, and then discusses community power structure in the Turkish urban context. Next, issues like decision-making at local level, the pertaining legal framework, the main actors involved in the process, the formal and informal mechanisms and structures, political decentralization, social clusters and groups, the interaction between parochial and urban politics, urban social movements and their motives, obstacles to urban integration. The course finally discusses central responses to the dynamics of urban politics.

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This course aims to provide a basic understanding of five Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. These countries are analyzed both on an individual basis and from a historical perspective with specific emphasis on some of their common features. In the final part of the course, these republics are examined within a regional and global perspective.

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The issues of European culture and identity gained a certain prominence in the contemporary stage of the process of European integration. This course, firstly, aims to introduce the prevailing initiatives and images of European identity within Western Europe. Secondly, the emerging patterns of politico-cultural differentiation within the European geography are going to be evaluated in relation to the ongoing relations between EU and Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Lastly, the repercussions of these tendencies for the Turkish experience of modernization will be discussed.

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The objective of this course is to give an overview of the actual theories of fascism. With a specific discussion of the twenties and thirties, the course also deals with certain attempts to analyze this phenomenon scientifically in order to develop effective antifascist strategies in this period especially in Italy and Germany.

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This course focuses on the changing role of the government with a specific reference to Turkey. In the new phase of world capitalism, that is globalization, it analyses the increasing role of transnational actors in the international environment, the role of nation-states and their impact on economic, social, political and cultural lives of societies.

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This course reviews individual and group behavior, its causes and consequences in work organizations, and deals with how various factors such as organizational design, leadership, organizational culture, and organizational politics etc. relate to these behaviors. The course is meant to provide a theoretical and practical framework for students of public administration to better understand the reasons and implications of human behavior in various organizational settings. While the course focuses on the concepts and theories related to interpersonal and group processes in work organizations in general, it also considers the unique nature of public organizations where relevant.

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This course is focused on public administration as a concept-the diversity of guiding general politico-administrative principles that determines how a government can administer the affairs of state within a governance framework-and as praxis-the diversity of perspectives on administration structures, procedures and practice. It explores the implications of the different styles of public administration for the provision of public services, public ethics, public accountability, the ideal-type public administrator, and the adminstrative reform agenda. It also reviews the style of public administarion adopted in a selection of countries that have been informed by different public administration principles.

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This course aims to lay out the conceptual basis of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy and its association with development. The evolution of the STI Policy given the pressures of globalization is contested. The Innovation Systems concept is introduced to shed light to the policy intervervention rationale for development. Within this framework Turkish STI Policy and European STI Policy concepts, basic credentials are discussed. The case of Turkey in terms of integration with Europe in the field of STI is tackled. Besides theoretical basis of Turkish and European STI Policy issues, practical examples are presented for a more reliable outlook to recent policy trends in STI.

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The main objective of this course is to provide students with an understanding of trade rules, politics, institutions, and major issues facing trade policy and the global trading system. It aims to explain how trade policy is formed and negotiated amidst the dynamics of the global trading system.It is designed to help students develop their skills in analyzing issues of world trade, assess the roles of trade institutions and interpret current challenges among major actors of the world trading system.

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This course examines how public policy is created, implemented, evaluated and held accountable in the current social, economic, and political environment. The course is designed to both promote an understanding of the theories and approaches to policy analysis and help the student to acquire a working knowledge of the skills involved in the practice of policy analysis in the area of public administration.
premise of popular cultural studies. Special attention will be paid to the interplay of ideology, culture, and power, the transformations of the field of cultural practices, and the contestatory character of popular cultural forms. Among the themes to be explored are the elite/mass or high/popular culture binaryism, the dichotomies of resistance versus domination and opposition versus ideological incorporation, the so-called postmodern collapse of cultural hierarchies, the pragmatics of diversionary practices in everyday life, and the politics of cultural transgression

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The purpose of this course is to introduce the students to controversial issues of spending, taxing, financing and financial control activities of governments which affect resource allocation and income distribution in any economy. In addition, some issues concerning the public finance reform initiatives in modern economies are also discussed with a special reference to Turkey.

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This course aims to familiarize students with; a; philosophy of ethics in general, b; the importance of moral philosophy and ethical behaviour in public service, c; ethics regulation in Turkish Public Administration. The course will be a survey of ethics in public administration in general and praxis in the context of Turkish Public bureaucracy.

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Studio of Public Reasoning is a creative and innovative workshop in which change and implementation in public institutions are scrutinized in first hand together with developing solutions for problems. Within the confines of the course first students are to be informed about the goals and methods and basic skills and necessary other data are presented. In cach term a research process is to be designed for a public institutlon or a unit and it is realized in teams. Obtained data is to be presented and discussed. With the help of this data students are encouraged to develop projects or programs aimed at improvement of the public institutions in concern.

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The aim of this course is to introduce the student to the Public Personnel System in Turkey. In the 1960s, the Turkish public personnel regime which was regulated with centralized and statutory understanding accordance with Fordist accumulation regime. The personnel regime shaped by the Civil Servants Law No: 657, which bears a monist, statutory and corporatist identity. The task undertaken involves outlining the constitutional-legal basis and institutional features of the contemporary personnel system, as well as exploring the historical dynamics and processes that contributed to the formation of the current system. The course also touches upon the key issues pertaining to the functioning of, and problems faced by, the Turkish public personnel regime. In that regard, both domestic and international pressures pushing the personnel system towards reform, as well as the applicability of such reforms will also be discussed.
The course will be delivered in a lecture format. However, students are expected to actively participate in the class discussions. Students are required to read the course materials and attend the lectures. Student grading will be made on the basis of two mid-term exams (each 25% of the total grade), a final exam (35% of the total grade) and attendance and active participation to the discussions and short assignments (15% of the total grade).

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The course addresses the principles of taxation and Turkish Tax System. It focuses on the sources of the Turkish tax legislation, procedures of taxation, tax laws and applications in Turkey and Turkish Tax Administration.

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The aim of this course is to introduce you to the literature and on regional policy and governance to equip you with analytical tools necessary to understand the changing spatiality of public policies and administration in Turkey. Throughout the course, the international examples, and especially the case of the European Union countries will be discussed. The objective of these discussions is to help you grasp the dynamics that (will) influence and shape the path of the public administration system and the policy process in Turkey on the way to integration with the EU. The course will finally cover the recent developments in Turkey in light of these discussions.

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The course offers a multi-disciplinary, multi-theoretical approach to the study of social security systems in a cross-national setting. Its purpose is to provide an introduction to the concept of social security and its history and traditions; its forms (models) of social security provision; and its financing and administration. Particular attention is given to pension privatization.

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Main objective of Program is to introduce the students to the theory and practice of health as a contested arena of public policy. It places emphasis on the conficting interest of actors involved in the policy making and implementation processes. While the main emphasis is placed on the Turkish case, other country experiences are also taken into consideration to provide the student with a comparative framework. Following lectures, students are expected to present the papers they prepared with the approval of the instructor.

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The course aims to familiarize students with the issues of neo-liberal transformation and changing
understanding of labour market in Turkey throughout the 2000s, especially exacerbated with the heavy conditionality from international organisations such as the European Union, World Bank and International Monetary Fund. In this context, policy areas to be analyzed include labour market, labour relations and labour law, gender equality, social security, employment, informal labour market and child labour. For each issue, the course will lead to systematic exploration of the actual policy problems and situation in Turkey, the basic institutional and legal framework, as well as the policies made and implemented in Turkey, from a critical perspective.

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This course is the continuation of ADM.495 Administration of Turkish Foreign Policy I

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This course aims to provide an overview of the protection mechanisms of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR/Convention) system and is designated to give students a sufficient knowledge about the procedure before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR/Court). The course will focus on ECHR as an international treaty that is signed and ratified by Turkey and the protection mechanisms and the procedural law aspects including but not limited to application procedures, admissibility, hearings and impact of the ECtHR decisions from Turkish Law point of view. The lecturer, based on her earlier experience (as legal expert involved in cases before the ECtHR at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) will intend to lead the students to explore and understand the implications of the judgments of the Court from national law point of view. İn view of its importance, a further part of the course will address the envisaged EU accession to the ECHR and recent developments thereof.

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The course intends to overview the basic concepts of competition law such as agreements, decisions and concerted practices of undertakings, monopolies and abuse of dominant power in the market, control of mergers and acquisitions which may affect competition. It covers a comparative introduction of Turkish, European Union and United States competition laws. Throughout the course the legislation and jurisprudence of the European competition law is also analyzed, since the competition law in Turkey is to a great extent in compliance with the European law.

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This course is an evaluation of sources of obligations such as contracts, torts and unjust enrichment. It studies contractual obligations with regard to their effects, performance and termination as well as some cases to clarify the discussed topics.

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This course is an evaluation of sources of obligations such as contracts, torts and unjust enrichment. It studies contractual obligations with regard to their effects, performance and termination as well as some cases to clarify the discussed topics.

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This course is intended to familiarize the students with the major models of state-economy and state-capital-labour relations in the advanced capitalist systems of Europe, with a specific emphasis on ´Anglo-Saxon´, ´organized market economy´ and ´state-centered´ models. With this framework, the course also analyzes the key institutional structures of industrial relations, corporate governance and their relation to the welfare state, and the changes produced by globalization and European integration.

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Critically discussing the effects of the new visual techniques that have appeared in conjunction with developing technologies and globalisation at the political level. Questioning how the political sphere is limited by biased perceptions of the elites, who are displayed and who are overlooked according to the political power matrix of a given time and space, how advanced surveillance techniques reshape the political-legal sphere, and how these techniques can be used in a counter manner.

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This course aims to understand and think of on the theory of minor politics. Minor politics is a new field of politics with its main characteristics that distinguish it from the field of major politics. The course is composed of four main parts. The first part will detect, understand and discuss the features and dynamics of major politics. The representation and the politics of conflict and reaction are two main pillars that define the substance of major politics. The second part will define the main features of minor politics, namely prefiguration, immanence and affirmation and the politics of friendship and affects. The third part of the course will analyze the existing studies carried on some fields like urban, ecology, migration, gender, etc.

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The course aims to map the field of popular cultural practices in Turkey. Tracing the historical formation and transformation of Turkish popular culture, it examines the interplay of culture, power and subalternity. Particular emphasis is put on the distinction and relation between the official-high culture and the folk-popular culture, the formation of cultural distinctions and hierarchies, popular representations of the state, subalternity vis-à-vis power, and the questions of legitimacy and cultural hegemony.

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The course is designed to put forward the place of public administration discipline within social sciences and humanities, which are dominant explanatory types of social reality, in the context of the theory of science and methodology. This place will be determined both internally via the paradigms concerned and externally from the perspectives of critical theory and historical materialism. In this course, on the one hand main characteristics of these scientific paradigms, on the other hand in line with the results rendered from the debates, the issue that whether public administration is science or not will be discussed. Methodological difference of this course is that, social sciences and humanities are not considered general abstract theories, but they are handled within the framework of the historical conditions from which they emerged. In this regard, general epistemology debate will be made on historical-economic ground. The place of public administration discipline will be analyzed historically in the context of administrative reality as a dependent variable of capitalist social reality (or formation). Furthermore, the place of the discipline, considering the discussions concerned in terms of public administration discipline in Turkey, will be problematised in the context of material bases (or substance) of the theory of science in Turkey.

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This course maps political ideologies in modern Turkey with special emphasis on their representations of capitalist modernity, state and the people. It will mainly provide a discourse analysis on the political and cultural writings of a number of major intellectual figures from different ideological perspectives. Tracing the intellectual legacy of the late Ottoman Empire, the lectures will focus on the historical trajectories and modalities of ideological discourses including Kemalism, nationalism, socialism, conservatism, Islamism, and liberalism. The intertextual relations between those discourses and their role şn the constellation of social and political forces will also be examined.

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The course aims to examine the traditional structures of media systems challenged by the arrival of cable, satellite broadcasting and the other types of electronic media. Following a review of the historical development of the media systems and the normative theories in relation to the social and political systems, major issues and themes prevailing in different countries are considered.

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This course involves the study of the major political ideas representing the most influential currents of thought. It confines itself to solely political theory and philosophical systems with special emphasis on the foundations of contemporary political thinking.

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This course discusses the concepts of political sociology in the light of recent literature and critically analyzes their theoretical/empirical significance. Some of the topics of concern are the role of individual in society and politics, alienation in industrial society, middle class politics and its relevance to present day political systems, theories of mass society, the role of ideology in shaping the society and politics, the nature of power in industrial society, and corporatism and neo-corporatism.

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This course examines the resurgence and persistence of ethnic conflicts and ethnic phenomena in the world by comparing and constrasting certain representative cases. Firstly, a general discussion on the concept of ethnicity is made by focusing upon certain identity factors such as race, gender, class, tribe, language, nationality and religion. Secondly, theories and concepts utilised in the study of ethnic conflict and ethnic political behaviour are analyzed. Lastly, earlier discussions are applied to certain cases chosen by the students.

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The aim of this course is to discuss and examine a well-known paradox concerning the relationship between modern states and human rights norms. The paradox is that since the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, states legally complied to the norms of human rights on the one hand; yet on the other hand, the same states, under certain circumstances, cultivated political aversion from realizing human rights norms. The course will elaborate two-already-given responses to the paradox: liberal optimism and cynical realism. Through criticizing both of these responses, we will try to articulate the possibility of a third outlook to the above-mentioned tension between human rights and political power.

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This course primarily focuses on modern theoretical debates within the confines of political science. Its main topics are structuralism, functionalism, systems approach, theories of underdevelopment, modernization theory, and the modern debates on the state.

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This course is designed to provide graduate students of political science with a solid understanding of historical and theoretical perspectives on the evolution and practice of social policy. For the purposes of the course, social policy is defined as regulatory and direct forms of public intervention to effect societal welfare. The course aims to familiarize students with the underlying causes, dynamics, changing forms and political economic outcomes of social policy.

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The study of the political trajectories of Latin America from a gender lense to analyse how gender has shaped political institutions, discourses, and processes; a focus on top-down and bottom -up processes of women’s inclusion as citizens in the political systems of the major countries in the region from a historical perspective. Thematic analysis of the gendered dynamics of political regime changes up to the recent era; the intersections of gender with authoritarianism, processes of economic liberalization and democratization. Women’s position in representative institutions, and their struggles to expand gender equality and social justice in the context of pervasive economic, racial and ethnic inequalities.

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This course focuses on the analysis of various historical forms of the state based on the views of different schools of thought. Also, a considerable part of the course dwells upon the modern debates on the controversial aspects and functions of the same phenomenon.

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This course is designed to provide graduate students of political science with a survey of the Latin American politics at both theoretical and empirical levels of analysis. It begins with an examination of the political and economic developments in Latin American societies during their capitalist development and state formation and their legacy for the state-society relations. The course then proceeds to the analysis of the rise of authoritarianism, transitions to democratic rule, the dynamics of economic liberalization, and the challenges of democratic consolidation in major countries of the region. Specific topic to be covered include the nature of the Latin American state, the role of militaries, political parties, civil societies and the impact of the market reforms on social and political stability.

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This course aims to provide an analysis of the fundamental aspects of Turkish Politics and political parties within the Turkish political system. The course is composed of three parts. The first part deals with the factors affecting political structure in Turkey such as ideology, religion, culture, economy, development and consolidation of democracy. The second part deals with the political parties. The third part is about the analysis of various criteria of the voting behaviour such as ethnicity class and gender.

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One of the distinguishing aspects of the 20th century political thought is the apparent plurality and diversity in dealing with the meaning of the political. Such diversity is rich in attributing various contents to the category of the political and the differences among these approaches cannot easily be reduced anymore to the contours of 19th century ideologies of liberalism, conservatism and marxism. Is there a specific and independent realm called the political that can be differentiated from the economical, cultural or ideological?

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Political economy is a major perspective in understanding the media of modern capitalism, which extensively operate as ´cultural industries´. The structure and operational logic of these organizations exhibit both similarities with and differences from other industries. Their common features with other areas of commodity production signify the fact that cultural industries are increasingly integrated into the general industrial structure and they explicitly operate within the field of economics. However, it is also obvious that the commodities they produce are extensively divorced from the commodity form produced in classical sectors of manufacturing industries. In other words, the commodities produced by cultural industries appear as symbols, which can be evaluated as one of the primary means in organizing the images and discourses through which people signify their own or others´ life. Through introducing the main perspectives in the political economy of communication and conveying how political economies approached to particular problem areas within the field, the ultimate objective of this course is to present a critical analytical framework of understanding the relation between symbolic and economic dimensions of cultural commodity production within contemporary capitalism.

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After a brief introduction to the different methodological approaches in the field of political economy, this course is intended to provide an in-depth analysis of the different dimensions of the relations between the state, capital and labor in Turkey within an historical and comparative framework. It will attempt to examine the development processes and policies from a political economy perspective. Special emphasis is to be given to changes in the international environment and their effects on the policies and prospects of the countries of the South in Latin America, South and East Asia, Africa in terms of alternative strategies of capitalist development and/or modes of integration into the world economy.

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This course aims to familiarize the students with key issues and debates regarding the Ottoman Empire and certain European countries such as England, France and Germany. The course employs a rigorously comparative perspective and the weekly topics are arranged accordingly. The readings about European history are mostly seminar works whereas those on Ottoman history are selected so as to introduce the students to latest trends and recent advances in historiography. The themes to be discussed throughout the semester include mode of production, early modern era, state formation, the working class question, commonalty vs. exceptional in historical paths, and state violence.

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This course aims to follow the philosophical and theoretical attempts that suggested or have been interpreted as to provide an ontological status to politics. In these attempts the problematic of the `dialectical` relationship between `structure` and `agency` have been postulated in various ways while the ideational, discursive and reflective capabilities of `the subjects` have been attributed a constitutive role regarding the construction of `reality`. The recent constructivist `turn` especially in the fields of comparative politics and international politics has reflected the operationalisation of these perspectives in the social sciences with a growing body of empirical works. Thouhout the classes a critical engagement with `political ontology` and political studies that take `the ideas` as their basis will be promoted.

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The course is designed to provide students with analytical tools to conceptualise the field of popular cultural practices. It represents a critical review of contemporary theoretical positions on popular culture, particularly the ones developed by the Frankfurt School, neo-Gramscian Marxism and Birmingham School, Bakhtin, de Certeau, and Bourdieu. A brief introduction to the theory of ideology, with which most students are likely to be unfamiliar, will be made as it constitutes the basic analytical premise of popular culture studies. Special attention will be paid to the interplay of ideology, culture and power, the transformations of the field of cultural practices, and the contestatory character of popular cultural forms. Among the themes to be explored are the elite/mass or high/popular culture binaryism, the dichotomies of resistance versus domination and opposition versus ideological incorporation, the so-called postmodern collapse of cultural hierarchies, the pragmatics of diversionary practices in everyday life, and the politics of cultural transgression. Within this context, various popular cultural forms, texts and narratives (e.g. popular music, sports, and folktales) will be referred to as well.

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This course aims to introduce graduate students to the concept of fiscal sovereignty and taxation as a policy instrument. Taxation is separated into two broad categories according to their purposes: fiscal and non-fiscal taxation. The course will analyze the results of fiscal and non-fiscal taxation, and focus on understanding the changes and developments of fiscal sovereignty of states.

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This course introduces graduate students to the idea of public administration-the guiding general politico-administrative principles that determines how public policies are administered within a governance framework-and to public administration praxis-how public policies are formulated, implemented, financed, cvaluated, and terminated. It will introduce students to the academic discourses on governance and public administration, public ethics and accountability, bureaucracy, organizational theory, people in organizations, the New Public Management, public sector and administrative reform, public budgeting. It also review the style of public administration adopted in a selection of countries that have been informed by different public administration principles.

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Public Policy and social justice, ideational dimensions, social exclusion as a cross-cutting policy theme, political representation and (re)distribution, comparative analysis of different policy schemes/orientations, the relationship between institutional design of the policymaking process and political representation, policy instruments and different social classes/groups access to wealth/welfare, new forms of inequality,neoliberal urbanisation and new geographies of injustice/identity, transformation of policymaking/implementation neoliberalism.

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This course is oriented towards a review of different schools and/or theorists of public administration theory from its genesis to contemporary ones. Special emphasis is given to methodology problem in this area.

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This course attempts to critically analyze these available alternative ways and means in service provision for local governments that are under fiscal constraints. It emphasizes pros and cons of public and private, mixed alternative provisions, and delivery systems at the local level.

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This course aims to introduce graduate students to the design and implementation of research projects in the social sciences. Course participants will explore some approaches in the philosophy of science, basic terms and concepts related to measurement and sampling as well as various qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis such as designing and implementing questionnaires, interviews, field research, experiments, content analysis and case studies.

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This course addresses research questions on cross-national differences and similarities in public opinion, voting behavior and political participation while holding the Turkish case as constant. Hence, we will test the travelling capacity of the theories of political behavior within different institutional, political, or cultural contexts and comment on their explanatory powers. Accordingly the course has two basic aims:
1) To introduce the study of comparative political behavior to the students and;
2) To locate the Turkish case within these comparative studies

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This course is designed to provide fundamental methodological issues in social sciences, and more importantly, it aims the master students to carry research oriented towards their M.S. thesis and write down, present and submit their proposals. Students have to submit their proposals at the end of the course, and the successful completion of an acceptable thesis proposal is the most important requirement of the course.

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The main purpose of this course is to analyse various factors that constitute Turkish politics, and the political parties within the Turkish political system. The course has three parts: first, Turkish political system with respect to factors affecting the political structure in Turkey, such as ideology, religion, culture, economy, development and consolidation of democracy. Second, the political parties within the Turkish political system are examined. Finally, the analysis of voting behaviour in terms of various criteria such as ethnicity, class, gender are discussed.

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Structural economic crises; state-business relations; industrial relations, intra-class and inter-class relations; accumulation and hegemony strategies; periodization.

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This is an advanced course dealing with the key issues and debates over the relationship between ideas and social practices with an attempt to clarify the affinities binding disparate theorists who seek to comprehend the shape and prospects of modern social formations.

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This course is a detailed reading of the major works of Hannah Arendt. It analyzes the influence of Arendt on the debate between liberals and communitarians, critical theory, theories of social action and public sphere, citizenship, social movements and the crisis of modernity.

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This course will be devoted to a slow reading of one central book by Aristoteles, Kant and Hegel by evaluating their relevance for major problematics of contemporary political thought. In the course the realms of moral choice and ethnical judgement on the one hand, and political decision-making and the parameters of order-maintenance, on the other are analyzed. The course also focuses on various intellectual attempts of overcoming this split by heavy use of the works of these philosophers.

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This is an advanced course to be organized as a comprehensive workshop in each semester to explore a certain period and/or a particular topic in Turkish politics.

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This course is designed to encompass a detailed overall view of the field of political sociology. To this aim, fundamental issues and areas of political sociology as well as the contributions of some of the path-breakers of the discipline will be discussed with reference to both their original works and interpretative material. In this context, Marx and Weber´s work and state, economy and politics; Durkheim and de-Tocqueville´s contribution on civil society and politics as well as their respective neo-versions will be reviewed. In the second part of the course basic forms of political rule (democratic, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes) and political participation, political parties and partisanship and political culture will be taken up with specific reference to contemporary world and Turkish cases.

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The aim of this course is to analyze the large and comprehensive field of political theory. It discusses and analyzes a selected field of interest within one or more theoretical approaches in political science, depending on the selected field of interest of the student.

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The proposed course takes the topic of social movements into the intersections between politics and social life and political theory and sociological theory. There is one recent theoretical perspective, relational approach, which targets this intersection point by synthesising the previous sociological theories and combining them with a conception of politics. the course firstly introduces students with an in-depth reading, discussion and interpretation of the basic books in this interdisciplinary field with a particular focus on political process or contentious politics theory (relational approach). Then, the course offers to rethink political theory of action through the case of social movements and Arendtigns theory of action.

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This course is about the mainstream debates, topics and thinkers of eighteenth-century western political thought.

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In this course the students are introduced to the main debates about geography and space and the ways in which space takes part in the constitution of political and economic processes and vice-versa. In the course main schools of thought in the field such as the Chicago School, Weberian and Marxist approaches are also analyzed.

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this is a reading intensive graduate seminar on theories on theories of nationalism and the Turkish experience. In the first and second part we will explore the basic debates and positions concerning nationalism studies. whereas in the final part we will focus on the Turkish experience and schoolarship on the Turkish nationalism. This seminar is designed to introduce students to the major theoritical and conceptual debates in the field of nationalism studies. Each week we will discuss a set of literature dealing with various themes in nationalism. The weekly readings are chosen to reflect the variet of topics and approaches. The goal of the course is to allow students to become familar with the major theoritical debates and to develop the skills necessary for comparing various theories and evaluating various explaniations.

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This is a course on the twentieth century critical thought. It may include specific debates and/or advanced research on Frankfurt school, post-structuralism, post-modernism and a variety of topics on the twentieth century Marxist thought.

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This course is a critical evaluation of the theory and practice of radical democracy. The main focus will be on identity politics, new social movements and new forms of participation in contemporary societies.

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This course is to be offered to those students who have an interest in the newly emerged Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzistan and Turkmenistan. It aims to provide an in-dept analysis on an advanced level about the history of the area, and the socio-economic, political, cultural and religion factors shaping these countries.

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This seminar is designed to introduce students to the major theoretical and conceptual debates in the sub-field of comparative politics. Each week we will discuss a set of literature dealing with various themes in comparative politics. The weekly readings are chosen to reflect the variety of topics and methodological approaches in comparative politics. The goal of the course is to allow students to become familiar with the major theoretical and methodological debates and to develop the skills necessary for comparing various theories and evaluating various explanations. Students, however, should remember that is not an all-inclusive syllabus and many important topics and debates are not covered in this seminar. It is the students` responsibility to familiarize him/herself with the major debates in the field.

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This course aims to clarify how ideologies are used in politics with respect to different approaches to political behaviour. Its focus is how and why individuals develop certain ideologies and how these ideologies are reflected on their political behaviour. Main political and sociological approaches to ideology and political behaviour are also examined. The course also includes discussions on such concepts as modernity, post-modernity, and globalism.

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This course deals with the so-called dialectic of law and transgression that has been conceptualized in many different and offen contradictory ways. It refers to the theoretical frameworks developed by Bataille,Zizek,Foucault,Stallybross and White, Kristeva, Derrida etc., with a specific attention to certain notions such as ´law-making and law-preserving violence´, ´inherent transgression´, ´carnivalesque economics of transgression´ and ´transgression as the disavowed foundation of law´.

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In this course, in each semester different issues on the theory of public administration is selected and elaborated in detail. Topics range from ´locus´ to ´focus´ of public administration theory.

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The aim of the course is to provide the students an elaborate study on the issues that advancements in technology bring to organizational life.

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The structure and key characteristics of public administration in Turkey; How to analyse the public policies?; Politics and administration; Administration and law; How does the policy implementation process work?; Public Private Partnerships examined; NGOs and administration; Overall evaluation and discussion on student papers.

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This is a course in which ethical issues in public administration theory and practice are elaborated. Emphasis is on both the philosophical grounds and the ´ethical code´ for public administrators.

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This course is designed to analyze public policy by giving special emphasis to the role played by public bureaucracy and the intricate interrelations between the policy making and other relevant actors. It provides an in-dept examination of social, economic, administrative and political environment in which the state operates. Particular emphasis is on the significance attributed to public bureaucracy in the complex and dynamic contextual framework of public policy.

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In this course advanced topics in policy-making process are studied.

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This course analyzes organizational culture as one of the major issues for the organizational analysis. In this course the notion of culture is taken both as an organizational variable from the perspective of the administrators and a constituent of societal life from the ´organizational sociology´ perspective.

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Th aim of this course is to familiarize students with new research topics, new methodologies and theoretical frameworks that will lead to a better PhD thesis.

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This course basically aims to provide the student the necessary analytical tools in the field of comparative government. In the first section of the course, the students analyze the three main branches of state; the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary in a general and comparative perspective. In the second section, countries chosen by the students according to their own preference and/or areas of interest are analyzed in order to contribute to the term projects to be prepared by each student.

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