Assist. Prof. Başak Taraktaş

Offered Courses:

POLS 204.1 POLS 421.1 POLS 598.1 POLS 690.12

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Research Interests

Opinion dynamics
Collective action, cooperation
Computational social science (network analysis, agent based modeling, machine learning)
Complex adaptive systems
Social movements
Democratization, authoritarian breakdown

Teaching Areas

Political methodology
State formation
Democratization
Social movements
Decision theory
European politics and European integration

Selected Publications

Articles

Taraktas, B., (2024). "Protesting during the covid-19 pandemic in Turkey: when moral indignation and economic grievances overweight risks of infection and repression". Social Movement Studies. 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2024.2349580

Taraktas, B., Duran, K. C., & Üsküdarlı, S. (2024). "Do Activists Prioritize Solutions Over Grievances? A Twitter Study of Black Lives Matter". Marmara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilimler Dergisi, 12:1, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.14782/marmarasbd.1316065

Taraktas, B. (2021). "Tolerable levels of disagreements: Collective action capacity & shape of coalitions". Social Networks, 68: 15-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2021.04.002

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Assist. Prof. Başak Taraktaş

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