Two New TUBITAK 3501 Career Development Program Grants

Within the scope of TÜBİTAK 3501 Career Development Program, Dr. Tuğba Sevinç Yücel from the Core Program’s project titled “What Keeps a Society Together? A Hybrid Approach Proposal” by Dr. Tuğba Sevinç Yücel from the Core Program and Dr. Kerem Yıldırım from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration. Prof. Kerem Yıldırım’s project titled “The Relationship of Local Governments’ Annual Reports with Transparency, Administrative Capacity and Voter Behavior” was entitled to be supported.

Dr. Yücel’s project will develop a hybrid vision that will jointly ground social unity and solidarity tendencies on two different sources. The hybrid vision proposed in the project aims to see whether an emphasis on the deep interdependencies in society and the existence of ongoing productive cooperation can help bridge ethical, cultural and ideological differences without jeopardizing social diversity, and to develop a more inclusive vision of social unity by curbing the exclusionary potential of national identity.

Dr. Yıldırım’s project aims to identify the factors that determine the publication of annual activity reports that all local governments in Turkey are obliged to prepare within the scope of the Law No. 5393 on Municipalities enacted in 2005, the Law No. 5018 on Public Financial Management and Control enacted in 2003 and the Regulation on Activity Reports to be Prepared by Public Administrations, the processes that determine this effect as an indicator of transparency and state capacity in local politics, and the impact of these reports on citizens.

We congratulate our professors and wish them success in their research.