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Ali Çarkoğlu

Ali Çarkoğlu

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Political Science
Turkey
2026

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Political Science

D-Index
29
Citations
3140
World Ranking
1299
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Turkey Leader Award
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Political Science
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Political Science
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Political Science

Overview

Ali Çarkoğlu is affiliated with Koç University in Turkey, specializing in social sciences with a focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, communication, artificial intelligence, and health. Their research predominantly addresses Turkey's politics and society, electoral systems and political participation, social media and politics, populism and right-wing movements, media influence on politics, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, and misinformation and its impacts.

Their recent papers cover a range of topics in political communication and media studies. Notable works include:

  • "Dynamics of Campaign Reporting and Press-Party Parallelism: Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism and the Media System in Turkey" (2020, Political Communication)
  • "Partisanship, elite messages, and support for populism in power" (2020, European Political Science Review)
  • "Support for Censorship of Online and Offline Media: The Partisan Divide in Turkey" (2020, The International Journal of Press/Politics)
  • "Media Effects in a Polarized Political System: The Case of Turkey" (2023, Political Behavior)
  • "Cognitive political networks: A structural approach to measure political polarization in multiparty systems" (2021, Social Networks)

The scholar has frequently collaborated with researchers including Kerem Yıldırım, Lemi Baruh, Simge Andı, Selim Erdem Aytaç, and Ezgi Elçi.

In terms of publication venues, their work has appeared multiple times in the Harvard Dataverse, The International Journal of Press/Politics, Electoral Studies, Political Communication, and the European Political Science Review.

Ali Çarkoğlu's contributions also include a book published by the University of Michigan Press titled "Fragile but Resilient?" (2020).

Recognized in the field of political science, they have received the award from The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi.

Best Publications

  • A spatial analysis of Turkish party preferences

    Ali Çarkoğlu;Melvin J. Hinich

  • Domestic Concerns and the Water Conflict over the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin

    A. Çarkoglu;M. Eder

  • Ideology or Economic Pragmatism?: Profiling Turkish Voters in 2007

    Ali Çarkoğlu

  • The Rising Tide of Conservatism in Turkey

    Ali Çarkoğlu;Ersin Kalaycıoğlu

  • Economic evaluations vs. ideology: Diagnosing the sources of electoral change in Turkey, 2002-2011

    Ali Çarkoğlu

  • Turkey and the European Union : Domestic Politics, Economic Integration and International Dynamics

    Ali Çarkoğlu;Barry M. Rubin

  • Who gets targeted for vote-buying? Evidence from an augmented list experiment in Turkey

    Alı Çarkoğlu;S. Erdem Aytaç

  • Press–party Parallelism in Turkey: An Individual Level Interpretation

    Ali Çarkoğlu;Gözde Yavuz

  • Press-Party Parallelism and Polarization of News Media during an Election Campaign The Case of the 2011 Turkish Elections

    Ali Çarkoğlu;Lemi Baruh;Kerem Yıldırım

  • Turkish Democracy Today: Elections, Protest and Stability in an Islamic Society

    Ali Çarkoğlu;Ersin Kalaycıoğlu

  • Political Preferences of the Turkish Electorate: Reflections of an Alevi–Sunni Cleavage

    Ali Çarkoğlu

  • The Nature of Left–Right Ideological Self‐placement in the Turkish Context

    Ali Çarkoğlu

  • The Rise of the New Generation Pro-Islamists in Turkey: The Justice and Development Party Phenomenon in the November 2002 Elections in Turkey

    A. L. I. Carkoglu

  • Religion, society and politics in a changing Turkey

    Ali Çarkoğlu;Binnaz Toprak

  • A new electoral victory for the 'pro-Islamists' or the 'new centre-right'? The justice and development party phenomenon in the July 2007 parliamentary elections in Turkey

    Ali Çarkoğlu

  • The ISSP 2017 social networks and social resources module

    Marlène Sapin;Dominique Joye;Christof Wolf;Johannes Andersen

  • The political economy of regional cooperation in the Middle East

    Ali Carkoglu;Mine Eder;Kemal Kirisci

  • Turkey's 2011 General Elections: Towards a Dominant Party System?

    Ali Carkoglu

  • Değişen Türkiye’de din, toplum ve siyaset

    Ali Çarkoğlu;Binnaz Toprak

  • Macro Economic Determinants of Electoral Support for Incumbents in Turkey, 1950–1995

    Alı Çarkoğlu

  • Taking Sides: Determinants of Support for a Presidential System in Turkey*

    S. Erdem Aytaç;Ali Çarkoğlu;Kerem Yıldırım

  • A Precarious Relationship: The Alevi Minority, the Turkish State and the EU

    Ali Çarkoğlu;Nazlı Çağın Bilgili

  • Alevis in Turkey

    Ali Çarkoğlu;Ezgi Elçi

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter V. Marsden
Peter V. Marsden Harvard University
André Blais
André Blais University of Montreal
André Krouwel
André Krouwel Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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