Avrupa Çalışmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi

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

  • Political methodology
  • State formation
  • Democratization
  • Social movements
  • Decision theory

  • European politics and European integration

Makaleler

Taraktas, B., Duran, K. C., & Uskudarli, S. (2025). Hashtag activism and framing strategies in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and the 2020 elections. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2025.2518533

Taraktas, B., et al. (2025). Comparative Analysis of Online Mobilization through Slogan Specificity: The Case of the Countermovements to #BlackLivesMatter. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251336421

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

Taraktas, B., & Cetin, U. (2025). Strategic convergence, ideological discounting, and pre-electoral coalition formation: evidence from the 2023 Turkish presidential elections. Turkish Studies, 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2025.2576098

Taraktas, B., Ayhan, A.Ü. Lowest common denominator messaging: issue prioritization in #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo digital coalitions. Soc. Netw. Anal. Min. 15, 106 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-025-01522-y

Sajjadi, S., Toranj Simin, P., Shadmangohar, M. et al. Structural inequalities exacerbate infection disparities. Sci Rep 15, 9082 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-91008-w