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The Author
Ali Çarkoğlu is currently a professor of political science and Dean of the College of Administrative Sciences
and Economics at the Koç University, Istanbul. He received his Ph. D. at the State University of New
York-Binghamton in 1994. He previously taught at Boğaziçi and Sabancı universities in Istanbul. He was a
resident fellow in 2008-2009 at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social
Sciences (NIAS). His areas of research interest include voting behavior, public opinion and party politics in
Turkey. He has taken part in teams of researchers conducting several surveys of public opinion on political
Islam, philanthropy in Muslim countries, corruption, informality, attitudes towards EU membership and
voting behavior in Turkey. He is on the editorial board of Turkish Studies. His publications appeared in the
Democratization, European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, Turkish Studies, New Perspectives
on Turkey, South European Society and Politics, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Studies and in edited volumes.
His most recent book co-authored with Ersin Kalaycıoğlu appeared from Palgrave: The Rising Tide
of Conservatism in Turkey (2009).