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Alper H. YAĞCI @yagcialper.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Our new article with Cemal Yılmaz and Uzay Çetin has been published in @govandopp.bsky.social. We study the evolution of political language depicting the main opposition party in Turkey, utilizing machine learning tools. 1/n

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Alper H. YAĞCI @yagcialper.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

For the LSE European Politics, I wrote on the divergence in recent electoral trajectories of Hungary and Türkiye. I explain that the varying government systems in these countries—parliamentarism in Hungary vs presidentialism in Türkiye—have played a role. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

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Why Erdoğan succeeded where Orbán failed

Hungary and Türkiye were once seen as parallel cases of democratic backsliding, yet their paths have diverged with Viktor Orbán’s defeat in the 2026 election.

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Alper H. YAĞCI @yagcialper.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

68 co-authors across 16 countries develop a new way to define national economic elites: 'World Elite Database' (WED). The first publication is open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... E.g.: US economic elites are the oldest on average, and the Chinese are much younger. Check it out.

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Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)

The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic re...

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