{"title":"Calibrating the Economic Impact of a Deficit in the Institutional Quality of Government: The Case of Spain","authors":"F. Sánchez","doi":"10.26650/SIYASAL.2021.30.1.874475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/SIYASAL.2021.30.1.874475","url":null,"abstract":"The quality of government institutions and the absence of corruption are key factors of economic development. How could we quantify, for any given country, the overall monetary cost of poor-quality institutions? This paper compares the institutional quality in Spain with those of the rest of the world and assesses the economic cost of the deficit of institutional quality in the country. Although Spain is among the top 20% of countries worldwide in terms of the quality of governance institutions, the value of the Spanish governance indicators is below what corresponds to Spain’s economic development level. The authors calibrate the effect that a correction of the deficit of institutional quality would have on Spanish income under different parameter scenarios and always finds a high positive potential impact. The method we introduce to conduct these calibrations can serve as a useful blueprint for the analysis of other countries.","PeriodicalId":408264,"journal":{"name":"SİYASAL: Journal of Political Sciences","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128091845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Making of ‘Hesitant Peace’ in Northern Ireland","authors":"İ. A. Kadıoğlu","doi":"10.26650/SIYASAL.2020.29.1.0099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/SIYASAL.2020.29.1.0099","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the early stage of the Northern Ireland conflict from the beginning of the ethno-nationalist conflict called the Troubles of 1969 to the beginning of the ‘peace process’ through the Downing Street Declaration of 1993 by focusing on a process of political, non-violent resolution efforts of political agents, which affected the route of the conflict. It utilises conflict resolution approaches to determine the variables with regards to the perceptions, positions, and decisions of conflicting parties, which provide an understanding of their role in peacemaking during the highintensity conflict. Particularly, it offers three major aspects for analysis: inter-party collaboration, popular support, and interchangeability between armed and political struggle. It uses rich data from archival documents to analyse the influence of early peace efforts to de-escalate the conflict and establish foundations for peace prior to official negotiations. It argues that peace efforts do not consist of official negotiations in the 1990s. The article finds that they had been initiated long before multilateral negotiations through political conferences, direct and indirect dialogues between major political parties in Northern Ireland, and the British and Irish governments. However, the reluctance of political agents towards peace prevented making progress towards peace.","PeriodicalId":408264,"journal":{"name":"SİYASAL: Journal of Political Sciences","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130326614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analyzing Al-Azhar’s Role in Egyptian Politics","authors":"A. Amin","doi":"10.26650/siyasal.2020.29.1.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/siyasal.2020.29.1.0058","url":null,"abstract":"A critical evaluation of the official stance of Shaykh Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Taayeb since the beginning of the protests on 25th January 2011 and until the military intervention on 30th of June 2013 merits particular attention. Al-Azhar did play an important political role in directing the revolutionary tide in Egypt based on its importance as the most ancient Islamic religious institution in Egypt. This paper addresses the political role of Al-Azhar from the establishment of the republic in 1952 until the Arab Spring in 2011 and the military intervention in 2013. It also sheds light on the relations between AlAzhar and Islamists, mainly the Muslim Brotherhood; that explains the behavior of Al-Azhar since 2011 until today. The study adopts a mixed research method: content analysis, critical discourse analysis, along with personal interviews. The study finds that Al-Azhar turns out to be a state institution committed to its political orientations. Al-Azhar found a threat to its interests and religious position during Mursi’s rule, therefore it endorsed the military intervention in June 2013 as it found a chance to protect itself from Muslim Brotherhood and Islamists.","PeriodicalId":408264,"journal":{"name":"SİYASAL: Journal of Political Sciences","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132266475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Donald Trump Yönetimi Politikalarının Tarihsel Açıdan Değerlendirilmesi: Andrew Jackson Dönemi ile Bir Karşılaştırma","authors":"Şener Çelik","doi":"10.26650/siyasal.2020.29.2.0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/siyasal.2020.29.2.0064","url":null,"abstract":"Amerika Birlesik Devletleri’nin 45. Baskani Donald J. Trump, goreve geldigi tarihten bugune ic ve dis politikada muhafazakar/sag bir durus benimsemistir. Bu durus dogrultusunda, ulkedeki gocmen veya siginmacilara karsi yabanci dusmanligina varan ayrimci uygulamalara girismis; kuvvet kullanma konusunda, sert retorigine ragmen askeri mudahalelerden kacinmis; uluslararasi ticarette ise korumaci bir politika takip etmistir. Trump, ABD’deki akademik cevrelerde ve medyada son donemde bu ozellikleri nedeniyle ulkenin 7. Baskani Andrew Jackson ile karsilastirilmis, ulkenin ic ve dis politikasinin Jacksoncu yaklasim olarak tanimlanan bir eksene kaydigi iddia edilmeye baslanmistir. Jackson, Kuzey Amerika Yerlilerine karsi izledigi dusmanca politikalar nedeniyle yabanci dusmanligiyla suclanmis; kuvvet kullanmaktan kacinmasi nedeniyle de tecritci ve mudahale karsiti bir lider olarak taninmistir. Ote yandan, uluslararasi ticarete yaklasimi liberal bir cizgiye yakin olmustur. Bu calismada, iki devlet adami, yabancilar politikasi, kuvvet kullanma politikasi ve uluslararasi ticaret politikasi baglamlarinda karsilastirilarak, aralarindaki benzerlik ve farkliliklar incelenmis, gunumuz ABD politikalarinin tarihsel perspektiften degerlendirilmesi amaclanmistir.","PeriodicalId":408264,"journal":{"name":"SİYASAL: Journal of Political Sciences","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123223033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Dynamics: Does the Turkish Lira Overshoot?","authors":"Bilge Kağan Özdemir, I. Siklar","doi":"10.26650/siyasal.2020.29.2.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/siyasal.2020.29.2.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Bu calisma, para politikasindaki dissal soklari tanimlamayi ve yapisal VAR (SVAR) modeli olarak adlandirilan yapisal kisitlar iceren bir VAR modeli kullanarak, bu soklarin Turkiye ekonomisindeki doviz kuru uzerindeki etkisini arastirmayi amaclamaktadir. Calismada kullanilan ampirik model, doviz kurunun belirlenmesinde parasal yaklasim cercevesinde gelistirilmistir ve Ocak 2003 ile Ekim 2019 arasindaki doneme iliskin aylik veriler kullanilarak tahmin edilmistir. Turkiye icin yapilan gecmis calismalarin aksine, bu calisma yabanci degiskenleri temsil etmek icin ABD verileri yerine Avrupa Birligi verilerini kullanmaktadir. SVAR modelinin tahmini sonucu elde edilen etki-tepki ve varyans ayristirmasi fonksiyonlari, analiz surecinde Turkiye ekonomisinde guclu ve neredeyse esanli bir doviz kuru sicrama etkisinin varligini dogrular niteliktedir.","PeriodicalId":408264,"journal":{"name":"SİYASAL: Journal of Political Sciences","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128077905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capital - Energy Substitution: Does Energy Sources Matter for the Elasticity of Substitution? An Empirical Investigation for OECD Countries","authors":"Ömer Faruk Altunç, Abdulmecit Yıldırım","doi":"10.26650/siyasal.2020.29.2.0087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/siyasal.2020.29.2.0087","url":null,"abstract":"Energy and other factors of production are the primary inputs in the context of sustainable economic growth. This makes energy relatively strategic in the development stage and in the energy importers economies. In this study, the effect of elasticity of substitution on economic growth is investigated for 31 OECD countries over the period from 1990-2014. Although the effect of elasticity of substitution between capital and aggregate energy consumption on economic growth has been examined in many studies, the issue of how this effect changes between the different sources of energy has not been adequately addressed. The research is aimed at contributing to the related literature in this regard. The effect of elasticity of substitution between capital and different energy sources on economic growth is examined within the neoclassical Solow-Swan Growth model. In this model, technology is defined by a variable elasticity of substitution (VES) production function. The empirical model is estimated by the non-linear least squares (NLLS) method. The results show that oil and primary energy consumption are substitutes; natural gas, coal, and hydroelectricity consumption are the complement in the final production of output.","PeriodicalId":408264,"journal":{"name":"SİYASAL: Journal of Political Sciences","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124490170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identity Politics behind the Recent Euro and Refugee Crises of the European Union","authors":"Ebru Oğurlu","doi":"10.26650/siyasal.2019.28.2.0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/siyasal.2019.28.2.0059","url":null,"abstract":"The recent crises in two flagship integration projects of the European Union (EU), i.e. the Euro and the Schengen integration, pose existential threats upon the Union. External shocks that revealed operational and institutional flaws within the EU have surfaced conflicts of preferences among the members and raised dubious questions about the future of integration. Although the causes and early stages of both crises had structural similarities, they resulted with completely different outcomes. This paper provides a liberal intergovernmental explanation for the divergent results of similar types of crises by referring to identity politics as the explanatory factor. It argues that the need for the collective identity in the Euro crisis and contradictions between European and national identities in the refugee crisis shaped the outcomes of the inter-governmental conferences and determined the future of each crisis.","PeriodicalId":408264,"journal":{"name":"SİYASAL: Journal of Political Sciences","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128606492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gençlerin Bir Kentin Aidiyet Mekânı Olarak İnşasına Katılımı: Trabzon Hakkındaki Mitselleştirilmiş Anlatılar ve Trabzonspor Hatırası","authors":"Gülmelek Doğanay","doi":"10.26650/siyasal.2019.28.2.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/siyasal.2019.28.2.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Benlik bir mekânda var olmakla iliskili ise, benlige ozgu anlatilarin da bir mekânda vuku buldugu bir gercektir. Bu nedenle gencligi anlamak, ozellikle gencligin deneyimledigi mekâni analiz etmekle mumkun olacaktir. Bu cerceveden hareketle, calisma Trabzon’da yasayan genclerin kenti ne sekilde aidiyet mekânina donusturduklerine odaklanmaktadir. Trabzon’da gencler kente olan aidiyetlerini cogu zaman mitsellestirilmis anlatilar, Trabzonspor taraftarligina dayali gecmis hatiralar ve deneyimlenen mekânlar uzerinden insa etmektedir. Trabzon kendisini deneyimleyen genclere yogun bir iceridelik hissi saglamaktadir. Bu his onlarin kendilerini yuva olarak kabul ettikleri bu mekânda guvende hissetmelerine neden olmaktadir. Bu calisma yazarin doktora tezinden turetilmistir ve onun saha verilerine dayanmaktadir. Calismada, toplumsal bir olgu olarak ele alinacak olan Trabzonlu genclerin kente atfettikleri anlam sosyolojik bakis acisiyla aciklanmaya calisilacaktir. Soz konusu amac cercevesinde anket, mulakat ve dokuman inceleme gibi birden fazla bilimsel arastirma teknigi kullanilmistir. Temelde nitel arastirma yontemlerinin kullanildigi yorumsamaci yaklasim benimsenmis ve derinlemesine mulakatlar ile gorsel, isitsel ve yazili dokumanlarin incelenmesi sonucunda elde edilen veriler, kapali uclu sorulardan olusan anket uygulamasiyla da desteklenmistir.","PeriodicalId":408264,"journal":{"name":"SİYASAL: Journal of Political Sciences","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116184453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Küçük Yerleşimlerin Yerel ve Özgün Değerleriyle Öne Çıkarılma Süreci: Küreselleşme Çağında Kent Turizmi","authors":"Sevim Budak, Suna Ersavaş Kavanoz","doi":"10.26650/siyasal.2019.28.2.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/siyasal.2019.28.2.0043","url":null,"abstract":"1970 sonrasi kuresellesme sureci ile birlikte yukselen yeni bir yerellesme anlayisi (Glocalisation: Turkceye kureyerellesme olarak cevrilmistir) oldugu gorulmektedir. Kuresellesme ile birlikte devletin rolundeki degisim ve donusum kureyerellesme surecinde kent yonetimlerinin rollerinde de degisim ve donusume yol acacak, kent yonetimleri kendi girisimci politikalarini kurgulayip izleyerek kuresel alanda kendilerine yer edinme arayisina giriseceklerdir. Bu arayis metropol sehirler bakimindan farkli bir yol ve yontem izlenmesine yol acarken ve bu konudaki literatur cig gibi buyurken, kucuk yerlesimler icin cok daha farkli bir yol izleme gerekliligini ortaya cikarmistir. Metropol sehirler nufus ve faaliyet bakimindan dev gibi buyur ve gitgide birbirlerine benzerlerken, kucuk sehirler bakimindan -farkliliklarin bir taninma nesnesi haline getirilmesi suretiyle- kentlerin kendilerini ozgun kilan degerlerini one cikarmalari ve piyasalastirmalari soz konusu olmustur. Giderek birbirine benzeyen metropol sehirlerin havasindan sikilan turistlerin ve turizm endustrisinin taleplerindeki degisimin yonunun de otantiklik/ozgunluk arayisi uzerine olmasi bu sureci kolaylastirrmis ve tesvik etmistir. Bu calismada aynilastiran kuresellesme sureci karsisinda farkliliklari one cikararak rekabet etme sureci olarak nitelendirebilecegimiz kureyerellesmenin kucuk yerlesimlerin ve yoneticilerinin kuresel piyasada yer alabilmek icin turizm endustrisinin taleplerine karsi gosterdigi duyarlilik ve yaklasimin kent yasamina etkisi incelenecektir. Soz konusu duyarlilik ve yaklasimlarin incelenmesi, kucuk yerlesimlerin kendi farkliliklarini, ozgunluklerini temsil eden kultur/miras; yerel yemekler ve icecekler ile doga ve festival ve benzeri organizasyonlarini gorunur kilma cabalarini ve bunun yan etkilerini kentlesme politikalari bakimindan daha kolay analiz etmemizi saglayacaktir. Sakin, yavas, surdurulebilir, huzurlu, yasanabilir ve ekolojik sehir kavramlarinin kureyerellesme karsisinda nasil bir donusum gecirdigi de daha rahat anlasilacaktir.","PeriodicalId":408264,"journal":{"name":"SİYASAL: Journal of Political Sciences","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126756923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uluslararası Göçün Dış Ticaret Üzerine Etkisi: Türkiye İçin Ampirik Bir Analiz","authors":"Gökhan Demi̇rtaş, Şule Yüksel Çakirca","doi":"10.26650/siyasal.2019.28.2.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26650/siyasal.2019.28.2.0055","url":null,"abstract":"Bu calismanin amaci, Turkiye’de uluslararasi gocun dis ticaret uzerine etkisini incelemektir. Calisma, 2013-2016 yillari arasinda Turkiye’nin goc aldigi 125 ulke ile dis ticareti uzerine odaklanmaktadir. Bu amacla panel veri yontemi kullanilarak tahmin edilen modeller, OECD uyesi ulkeler ve gelismekte olan ulkeler olmak uzere iki gruba ayrilmistir. Modellerde yer alan degiskenler, genisletilmis cekim modeline gore belirlenmistir. Calismanin iki temel sonucu bulunmaktadir. Ilk olarak hem OECD ulkeleri hem de gelismekte olan ulkeler icin olusturulan modellerde uluslararasi gocun ihracat, ithalat ve dis ticaret uzerine etkisi pozitiftir. Ikinci olarak Turkiye’de uluslararasi gocun ithalat uzerindeki pozitif etkisi, ihracat uzerindeki etkisinden daha buyuktur. Bu sonuc, Turkiye’de tercih etkisinin ag etkisinden daha baskin oldugunu gostermektedir. Ayrica Turkiye’ye daha nitelikli is gucune sahip gocmenlerin gelmesini ozendirecek politikalara ihtiyac vardir.","PeriodicalId":408264,"journal":{"name":"SİYASAL: Journal of Political Sciences","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122473608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}