Emre Erdoğan
Ağustos 18, 2020
Built on a neighborhood-based qualitative study that was carried out in Istanbul, this article explores the use of complementary research methods that explore how children contextualize their well-being within the spatial boundaries of a particular social location. Therefore, spatiality is used as a methodological tool to understand children’s subjective construction of well-being embedded in a web of relations. Using the framework of the social studies of childhood that constructs child as an agent, the research study puts emphasis in involving […]
Ağustos 18, 2020
Turkish youth is characterized with low level of political participation. Several surveys showed that less than 10 percent of Turkish youth are active in political parties and civil society organizations. There are cultural and behavioral reasons of this inertia. Meanwhile, Facebook, the most important social network site is widely used in Turkey and Turkish users form the 6th biggest population in Facebook but level of political participation in Facebook is unknown. By using data collected from 563 university students, this […]
Ağustos 18, 2020
As new elections approach, Turkish political agenda is once again dominated by discussions of election systems and impending changes in the existing one. These discussions are not without consequence. Since the first competitive and fair elections of 1950, twelve general elections have been held and a total of 37 legislative arrangements concerning elections have been implemented. Three of those were passed by the parliament just before the December 1995 elections (Tuncer, 1997, 5). The new early election, expected to be […]
Ağustos 18, 2020
Dış politika konuları seçmenlerin çoğu için kolayca yorumlanamayacak kadar karmaşık konulardır. Buna rağmen seçmenlerin kamuoyu araştırmalarında bu konularda tutum sahibi olduklarını belirttikleri gözlemlenmektedir. Belirtilen tutumların, dış politika konularında referans alınacak bir kamuoyunun varlığına işaret ettiği iddia edilmekle birlikte, bu tutumların neredeyse rastsal bir şekilde oluştuğu da öne sürülmektedir. Araştırma çalışmamız, 2009 yılında Başbakan Tayyip Erdoğan’ın Davos’ta katıldığı bir paneli terk etmesi ve “One Minute Çıkışı” olarak bilinen davranışı sonrasında yürütülen bir anket çalışmasına dayanarak seçmenlerin dış politika konusundaki algılarının siyasal […]
Ağustos 18, 2020
Based on the research that was conducted to evaluate child well-being indicators from the perspectives of children in order to advance the nation-wide monitoring of their well-being in Turkey, the aim of this article is to demonstrate what children prioritize for each domain for a happy child. To this end, 562 children from different age groups -including some specific focus on certain disadvantaged groups—completed questionnaires. 40 focus groups approximately with 10 children were held afterwards with the aim of evaluating […]