Yuksel Alper Ecevit
Ph.D, 2013, Political Science, Binghamton University, USA.
M.A., 2010, Political Science, Binghamton University, USA.
M.A., 2005, European Union Studies, Leiden University, NL.
B. A. , 2004, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University, TR.
Y. Alper Ecevit, Associate Professor of Political Science. After receving his Ph.D degree at Binghamton University, USA in 2013, he worked as assistant professor at Bahçeşehir University (2013-2017) and at Cukurova University since 2017. He was a visiting fellow at University of Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities in 2015.
His research articles were published at leading journals including Party Politics, Parliamentary Affairs and Political Research Quarterly. He currently works as an associate professor at Bahçeşehir University.
His main research areas are political parties, semi-presidential systems, citizenship and voting rights.
He received his Inter-University Associate Professorship degree on June 30th, 2021.
He is married and a father of two daughters.
Supervisors: Michael D. McDonald and Sabri Sayarı
Phone: Cukurova Internal- 6116
Address: Çukurova Üniversitesi Balcalı Kampüsü, İİBF 1. BLOK, 1. Kat
M.A., 2010, Political Science, Binghamton University, USA.
M.A., 2005, European Union Studies, Leiden University, NL.
B. A. , 2004, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University, TR.
Y. Alper Ecevit, Associate Professor of Political Science. After receving his Ph.D degree at Binghamton University, USA in 2013, he worked as assistant professor at Bahçeşehir University (2013-2017) and at Cukurova University since 2017. He was a visiting fellow at University of Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities in 2015.
His research articles were published at leading journals including Party Politics, Parliamentary Affairs and Political Research Quarterly. He currently works as an associate professor at Bahçeşehir University.
His main research areas are political parties, semi-presidential systems, citizenship and voting rights.
He received his Inter-University Associate Professorship degree on June 30th, 2021.
He is married and a father of two daughters.
Supervisors: Michael D. McDonald and Sabri Sayarı
Phone: Cukurova Internal- 6116
Address: Çukurova Üniversitesi Balcalı Kampüsü, İİBF 1. BLOK, 1. Kat
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the received wisdoms in this literature is that loyalty to the party leadership in centralized systems and personal voteearning attributes in decentralized systems rank in priority for representatives’ career prospects. However, the
determinants of candidate nomination in countries with centralized nomination procedures have been significantly
undertheorized, due in part to the implicit assumption that party loyalty outweighs any other factor in determining
career decisions. We close this gap by analyzing nomination and promotion decisions in Turkey, a closed-list PR
system with highly centralized nomination procedures. We argue that representatives’ parliamentary performance
such as parliamentary activeness and issue concentration influence parties’ nomination and promotion decisions.
Utilizing original data sets of biographies of 1100 MPs who served in parliament between 2002 and 2011, and over
18,000 parliamentary speeches and 1040 bill cosponsorships, we estimate empirical models that are explicitly derived
from the underlying theoretical model and find evidence that party leaderships favor incumbents who make more
speeches and who display higher issue concentration, while penalizing electorally safe incumbents who seek legislative
influence through private members’ bills (PMBs). Results offer important implications for the study of intraparty politics
and parliamentary behavior in general, and candidate nomination in particular.
Papers by Yuksel Alper Ecevit
Education by Yuksel Alper Ecevit
the received wisdoms in this literature is that loyalty to the party leadership in centralized systems and personal voteearning attributes in decentralized systems rank in priority for representatives’ career prospects. However, the
determinants of candidate nomination in countries with centralized nomination procedures have been significantly
undertheorized, due in part to the implicit assumption that party loyalty outweighs any other factor in determining
career decisions. We close this gap by analyzing nomination and promotion decisions in Turkey, a closed-list PR
system with highly centralized nomination procedures. We argue that representatives’ parliamentary performance
such as parliamentary activeness and issue concentration influence parties’ nomination and promotion decisions.
Utilizing original data sets of biographies of 1100 MPs who served in parliament between 2002 and 2011, and over
18,000 parliamentary speeches and 1040 bill cosponsorships, we estimate empirical models that are explicitly derived
from the underlying theoretical model and find evidence that party leaderships favor incumbents who make more
speeches and who display higher issue concentration, while penalizing electorally safe incumbents who seek legislative
influence through private members’ bills (PMBs). Results offer important implications for the study of intraparty politics
and parliamentary behavior in general, and candidate nomination in particular.