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Sultan Tepe
Associate Professor
Phone: 312-355-0128 Fields of Interest: Comparative Politics, Democratization, Religion and Politics, Political Parties, Radical Political Groups, Research Methods, Survey and Questionnaire Design to Study Religion and Political Participation, Judicial Reforms, Middle Eastern Politics.
Work in Progress: Implications of JDP sponsored Reforms in Turkey, Field Research
Selected Publications:
Beyond Sacred and Secular:
Politics of Religion in Israel and Turkey,
Stanford University Press, 2008 "Turkey's AKP: A Model "Muslim-Democratic" Party?" Journal of Democracy, Volume 16, Number 3, July 2005. "Religious Parties and Democracy: A Comparative Assessment of Israel and Turkey", Democratization, Volume 12, Number 3, June 2005 “Kemalism, Islamism and the National Action Movement,” Turkish Studies, Volume 1, Number.2, 2000. “The Middle East Peace and Israel’s Radical Religious Parties," Economics (Iktisat), No.399, March 2000. “East of the East: Sephardization of the Oriental Jewry in Israel”, Society and Science (Toplumbilim), No.11, February 2000. "Political Religion and Coexistence in National and International Political System: Cases of Israel and Turkey," in New Trends and Approaches in International Relations (Uluslarasi Iliskilerde Yeni Akimlar ve Yeni Yaklasimlar), Faruk Sonmezoglu (ed.), Istanbul: Der Publication, 1998. Selected Special Reports Contributions:
Islamists at the
Ballot Box,
The United States Institute of Peace, Special Report No. 144, July 2005
Turkey between the
European Union and the Middle East,
Tel Aviv University, 2006. Selected Collected Survey Data: Comparative Religious Party Support I, 2003 Comparative Religious Party Support II, 2005
Where do "Radical Parties" stand? A Spatial Review of Radical Parties in Multiparty Competitions, American Political Science Association, August 29 September 3, 2006.
Between Shifting and Resilient Forces: Turkey in Comparative Perspective, Conference in Honor of Frank Tachau, Sile, Istanbul. August 6-8, 2006 (Conference Organizer). From Religious Convictions to Democratic Civility? A Comparative Look at the Social Capital of Political Religious Communities, the Annual Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association, November 18-21, 2006. Democratic Society and Adaptive Management Models: Comparing the Resilience and Collapse of Democratic Systems, Midwest Political Science Association, April 20-23 2006. Reluctant Revolutionaries? The JDP and Turkey's Response to the EU's Copenhagen Criteria, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 8, 2006. (Invited Speaker) The Promises and Paradoxes of the Justice and Development Party, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, April 18 2005. (Invited Speaker) Islamists at the Ballot Box: Findings from Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and Turkey, U.S. Institute of Peace, April 12 2005. (Invited Speaker) Women in the JDP: An Assessment of the Contradictions Facing Turkey’s Pro-Islamic Democratic Party, The Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University, October 8, 2004 (Invited Speaker) Democratization of Islamic Politics, American Political Science Association, Washington DC, September 1-4, 2005. A New Phase in Turkish Politics?, the Annual Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association, San Francisco, November 20-23, 2004. Political Religion versus Secular Nationalism? Religious Politics and Nation-State, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2003. Ummah vs. Nizam-i Alem: The Two Competing Conceptions of the Islamicized Public Sphere in Turkey, Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Convention, Washington DC, November 23-26, 2002. Mapping Out Fundamentalism: A Spatial Analysis of the Shas Party and the Nationalist Action Party in the Israeli and Turkish Political Universes, Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 60th Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 25-28, 2002.
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Selected Research Grants and Honors:
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