Deniz Aksoy - Princeton University

February, 2014
Deniz Aksoy
Princeton University
Department of Politics
302 Robertson Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544-1012
Office Phone: (609) 258-0730
Cell Phone: (814) 360-5324
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.princeton.edu/∼daksoy
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
• Princeton University
Associate Research Scholar
Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School, August 2011–present
• Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Instructor
Department of Political Science, August 2008–July 2011
EDUCATION
• University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Ph.D. in Political Science, 2008
Dissertation Committee: G. Bingham Powell (chair), Bonnie Meguid, Tasos Kalandrakis
M.A. in Political Science, 2005
• Boğazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
B.A. with Honors in Political Science and International Relations, 2002
PUBLICATIONS
• “Elections and the Timing of Terrorist Attacks in Democracies”
Forthcoming at Journal of Politics.
• “Electoral Institutions and the Emergence of Terrorist Groups in Modern Democracies”
British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2014
Co-authored with David Carter
• “Terrorism in Dictatorships”
Journal of Politics, Vol. 74, No. 3, 2012
Co-authored with David Carter and Joseph Wright
• “Institutional Arrangements and Logrolling: Evidence from the European Union”
American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2012
• “The Flag or the Pocketbook: To What are Immigrants a Threat?
International Migration, Vol. 50, No. 6, 2012
• “It Takes a Coalition”: Coalition Potential and Legislative Decision-Making”
Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 4, 2010
• “Who Gets What, When and How Revisited: Voting and Proposal Powers in the Allocation of the
EU Budget”
European Union Politics, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2010
• “Getting into the Game: Legislative Bargaining, Distributive Politics, and EU Enlargement”
Public Finance and Management, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2009
Co-authored with Jonathan Rodden
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WORKING PAPERS & RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
• “Terrorism and the Fate of Dictators” with David Carter and Joe Wright
Under Review. Presented at the 2012 and 2013 meeting of the International Studies Association.
• “Identity Creation: Attachments to the Supranational European Identity among the EU Member
States and Candidate Countries”
Under Review
• “Violence and Electoral Success”
Presented at the 2013 meeting of the International Studies Association, Midwest Political Science
Association, and European Political Science Association.
Working paper
• “Terrorism and Voting in Democracies”
Working paper
Co-authored with Nazli Avdan
BOOK REVIEW
• Review of Berna Turam, “Secular State and Religious Society: Two Forces in Play in Turkey”, Politics
and Religion, Volume 6, Issue 3, 2013.
FELLOWSHIP & AWARDS
• Rock Ethics Institute/Schreyer Honors College Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, 2010–2011
• Political Science Fellowship, University of Rochester, 2002–2007
• Richard Fenno Dissertation Field Research Grant, University of Rochester, 2006
• Charles E. Lanni Research Fellowship, University of Rochester, 2002–2006
• Achievement Fellowship, Bogazici University, 1997–2002
• Turkish Prime Ministry Tuition Scholarship, 1996–2002
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Princeton University
Politics of Public Policy (Graduate Course), Woodrow Wilson School
Politics of Ethnicity, Department of Politics
Policy Research Seminar on Ethnic Politics, Woodrow Wilson School
Comparative Ethnic Conflict, Department of Politics
• Pennsylvania State University
Nationalism, Ethnicity and Immigration
Comparative Politics of Western Europe
Politics of the European Union
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
• Dissertation Field Research
Conducted interviews with members of the European Parliament, experts from the European Commission,
and experts from member states’ permanent representations to the European Union, Brussels, 2006
• Research Assistant
for Gretchen Helmke and Bonnie Meguid, “Origins of Compulsory Voting”, 2006–2007
for Hein Goemans, “Archigos: A Database on Political Leaders”, 2005
for G. Bingham Powell, “Median Voter and Changing Tax and Transfer Policies” 2002-2003
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RELATED EXPERIENCE
• Mentoring Faculty in Residence Summer Institute on Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models
(EITM) at Princeton University, 2012
• Reviewer for American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political
Science, European Union Politics, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Political Research Quarterly,
International Studies Perspectives, European Journal of Political Research, Comparative Political
Studies, Public Choice, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly
• Editorial Assistant for Perspectives on Politics, 2006–2008
Editor Professor James Johnson
• Turkish Republic Prime Ministry State Planning Organization
Intern at the Directorate of European Union Affairs, Ankara, Winter 2000
• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Assistant for the organization of the Istanbul Summit, Istanbul, November 1999
INVITED TALKS
• Rutgers University, October 2012
• Princeton University, Third Annual Workshop on European Integration, May 2011
• University of Colorado at Boulder, Workshop on European Union Institutions, May 2011
• Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, December 2007
• Boğazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, December 2007
LANGUAGE SKILLS
• Turkish, native
• English, advanced
REFERENCES
G. Bingham Powell
Marie C. Wilson and Joseph C. Wilson Professor of
Political Science
Department of Political Science
University of Rochester
(585) 275-0621
[email protected]
Bonnie Meguid
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Rochester
(585) 275-2338
[email protected]
Tasos Kalandrakis
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Rochester
(585) 273-4902
[email protected]
Joseph Wright
Jeffrey and Sharon Hyde / Political Science Board
of Visitors Early Career Professor
Department of Political Science
Pennsylvania State University
(202) 460-4475
[email protected]
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