Publications

A Theory of Gender's Effect on Vote Shift with a Test Based on Turkish Elections

In this article, I use insights from gender studies and political psychology to develop a new theory of gender’s effect on vote shift and test it on Turkish elections.

Murat Abus

A Theory of Gender's Effect on Vote Shift with a Test Based on Turkish Elections

Imperial Politics and Feisal's Arab Government in Syria, 1918-1920

In this working paper, utilizing archival soruces, I analyze the slow process of the emergence of Arab nationalism after the First World War through Feisal’s short-lived Arab Government in Syria.

Murat Abus

Imperial Politics and Feisal's Arab Government in Syria, 1918-1920

Electoral Consequences of Administrative Reforms

In this paper, I provide empirical evidence for the electoral effects of administrative reforms carried out by incumbents.

Murat Abus

Democracy at the Intersection of Religious Cleavage and Populism

In this paper, I set out to test whether the effect of religiosity on political participation changes in shorter periods as opposed to the view that these changes are usually glacial.

Murat Abus

Ideology and Gender Role Incongruity

In this paper, I develop a theory of gender-based vote shift and test it in one of the worst cases of autocratization in the world.

Murat Abus

Ideology and Gender Role Incongruity

Clientelism and Voting Behavior

In this working paper, I empirically demonstrate the effect of perceptions of clientelistic goods and service provision on voting behavior.

Murat Abus

Clientelism and Voting Behavior

Do Elections Create or Further Path Dependencies?

In this paper, I provide an empirical test of one aspect of the arguments relating to the effect of reiterated elections on level of democracy.

Murat Abus

Do Elections Create or Further Path Dependencies?

Are We There Yet?

In this paper, we re-examine the first decade of democratization after the Cold War and argue that the setting of unreasonable expectations will have a potentially deleterious effect on political participation and democratic consolidation.

Murat Abus, Cameron Wimpy

Are We There Yet?

Election Administration and UOCAVA Voting

In this paper, I update the empirical research on election administration relating to UOCAVA voting and incorporate the new metrics that recently became available.
Best Graduate Paper Award

Murat Abus

Election Administration and UOCAVA Voting

Reflections in the Mirror

In this paper, I analyze the sources of support for authoritarian politics in one of the worst cases of democratic decline in the world.
Best Graduate Paper Award

Murat Abus

Reflections in the Mirror

Democratization in the Balkans, 1990-2002

In this article, I argue that gradualism is a better way to approach democratization in the Balkans compared to the transition paradigm.

Murat Abus

Democratization in the Balkans, 1990-2002