Mehmet Yavuz
@yavuzmehmet.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Salzburg. PhD in Political Science from the Central European University. Research interests: politics of trade,authoritarian regimes text-as-data, causal inference, and inevitably Turkey.
September 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Many thanks, Felix! I hope everything is going well.
September 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Many thanks, Felix! I hope everything is going well.
Reposted by Mehmet Yavuz
We want to thank the @fwf-at.bsky.social, @erc.europa.eu, and @ecprsgir.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social for their support. We thank all paper givers and other participants for their time and effort. We hope that this workshop will leave a mark on all papers presented. Thank you for joining us! 🧵3/4
September 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We want to thank the @fwf-at.bsky.social, @erc.europa.eu, and @ecprsgir.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social for their support. We thank all paper givers and other participants for their time and effort. We hope that this workshop will leave a mark on all papers presented. Thank you for joining us! 🧵3/4
Reposted by Mehmet Yavuz
We had 12 papers, collectively authored by researchers from around 20 universities at different career stages and from across the globe. We were also very fortunate to welcome a stellar group of participants without papers. Clearly, LLMs are on many political scientists’ minds these days. 🧵2/4
September 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We had 12 papers, collectively authored by researchers from around 20 universities at different career stages and from across the globe. We were also very fortunate to welcome a stellar group of participants without papers. Clearly, LLMs are on many political scientists’ minds these days. 🧵2/4
In light of recent crackdowns against the opposition in Turkey, I hope these findings will be informative not only to social scientists but also to democrats in Turkey and around the world.
September 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In light of recent crackdowns against the opposition in Turkey, I hope these findings will be informative not only to social scientists but also to democrats in Turkey and around the world.
With this study, I show that crises change how and to what extent authoritarian regimes use ideological legitimation claims to justify their rule, challenging static understandings of ideology in much of the literature.
September 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
With this study, I show that crises change how and to what extent authoritarian regimes use ideological legitimation claims to justify their rule, challenging static understandings of ideology in much of the literature.
✔️ In the short run, authoritarian regimes increase their use of ideological legitimation claims after a crisis.
✔️ In the long run, they deploy ideological claims more strategically against regime outsiders—such as opposition parties—to demonize them.
✔️ In the long run, they deploy ideological claims more strategically against regime outsiders—such as opposition parties—to demonize them.
September 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
✔️ In the short run, authoritarian regimes increase their use of ideological legitimation claims after a crisis.
✔️ In the long run, they deploy ideological claims more strategically against regime outsiders—such as opposition parties—to demonize them.
✔️ In the long run, they deploy ideological claims more strategically against regime outsiders—such as opposition parties—to demonize them.
Using the July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey for causal identification, I analyze a novel dataset of Erdoğan’s speeches (2014–2022) with topic models, dictionaries, and word embeddings, combined with interrupted time-series analysis. The findings show:
September 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Using the July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey for causal identification, I analyze a novel dataset of Erdoğan’s speeches (2014–2022) with topic models, dictionaries, and word embeddings, combined with interrupted time-series analysis. The findings show: