Murat AbusSyracuse University | SU · Department of Political Science
Murat Abus
Master of Arts
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In 1990, following the revolutions in Eastern Europe, hopes ran high for a quick transformation to full democracies throughout the region. What followed baffled Western observers and practitioners to a great deal. This book is a multi-methodological exploration of the development of civil society and findings suggest the neo-liberal institutionalis...
This paper analyzes the short-lived Arab government formed in Damascus by Feisal under British auspices that had jurisdiction over the smaller Syria that emerged after the severance of some of its integral parts at the end of the First World War. The factors that played a role in the fate of this government were the Arab nationalism that emerged be...
Despite great advances in the last decades, there is an enduring gender gap in a majority of the countries. Gender is prevalent in all aspects of life, and it is impossible to avoid gender roles. The choices regarding gender roles are threefold: Accept them, reject them, or have an ambivalent stand. When voters grow incongruous with their parties,...
Administrative reforms can be deployed by incumbents for long-term electoral advantage with deleterious effects on democracy.
The electoral fortunes of political parties under electoral authoritarian regimes is key to democratization in these countries. Under these contexts, the vote shifts generally follow a pattern of ideological congruity. However, when gender politics is salient in the sense of increased presence at the leadership level and the visibility of female ca...
The dramatic expansion of multiparty elections in the post-Cold War period and the emergence of protracted transitions and divergent outcomes caused debates on whether elections create or further path dependencies. Some scholars argued that elections do have the power to usher in an increase in liberties and the level of democraticness in a polity...
In this paper we re-examine the volatility of voter turnout in transitional democracies. The literature thus far has mostly ignored some of the factors that account for highly volatile changes in political participation during democratic transitions. For example, changes in the distribution of housing and property in the post-communist countries of...
Under the general framework of efforts to improve election administration in the United States in the aftermath of the debacle in Florida in 2000, Election Assistance Commission was established to prevent a repeat of administrative failures. The resulting federally-mandated data accumulation has afforded an unprecedented insight into the effect of...
This study aims to contribute to voting literature by providing a two-pronged empirical inquiry into the effects of clientelism on voting. The question of whether it is possible to structure voting behavior with long-term effects through patron-client linkages is the main line of inquiry. First, effects of extensive sub-national administrative unit...
The widespread experience of democratic decline in both established democracies and hybrid regimes formed one of the main branches of the study of comparative democratization in the last decade. The fact that countries which had transitioned to democracy and were at different levels of democratic development were equally affected points to the poss...