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Political Science Student Wins International Research Award

July 17, 2013

Political Science Student Wins International Research Award

Kürşat Çınar (second from the left), graduate student in political science, has been selected by Sabanci University in Istanbul to receive the Sabanci International Research Award for 2013. The Sabanci award recognizes distinguished examples of fresh research with a view to engaging intellectual attention on Turkey’s role in the contemporary world.

The theme of this year’s Sabanci award, Checks and Balances in a Democracy: Turkey in a Comparative Perspective, focuses on the issue of power and democratic norms within the context of the Turkish experience with democracy.

Çınar is co-author with Meral Uğur Çınar, postdoctoral fellow in political science and sociology, The New School (NY), of the article Building Democracy to Last: The Turkish Experience in Comparative Perspective. Their research was cited by the award committee as contributing to this year’s award theme by synthesizing theoretically and contextually informed case studies with original statistical results and reinforcing the indispensable relationship between democracy and checks and balances.

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