🎉 Excited to share that @mberfinbaydar and I have also received the @APSAInequality Best Paper in Social and Economic Inequality Award for our paper "Homogenizing the High Street"! . Grateful for the recognition🎈🎈🎈.

RT @tanu_kumar1: Lines up with @aslicansunar’s work on this! .

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One of the best parts about teaching PhD courses: I get to nerd out about what I love 🚞🚂

RT @apsa_section11: Cammie Jo Bolin presents the Weber Best Paper in Religion and Politics Award to Berfin Baydar and Asli Cansunar. https:….

RT @mberfinbaydar: It was an unforgettable APSA for me this year 🎉 Thrilled to present our new paper, connect with amazing people, and rece….

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You can read the paper here: .

I am incredibly honored to share that @MBerfinBaydar and I received the Weber Best Paper Award by @apsa_section11 for our paper "Homogenizing the High Street: The Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination." 🎈🧿. @DukePoliSci @ForumUW

The amount of paperwork I had to prepare to go to a 2-day workshop in Spain. Also, I had to come down to San Francisco in person to hand in these documents. This is madness. If this does not go through (the last Schengen I was able to get was in 2020) I won’t ever try again.

As they say, I have some professional news: . I have been promoted to Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. 🥳🤩. I am incredibly happy and grateful to everyone who believed in my work and supported me throughout this journey. 🥰

Dancing in my office to this song💃.

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RT @aslicansunar: New in @JHPE with @NelaMrchkovska :. 🏫Lit on state-building: teachers play a pivotal role in enhancing state control.….

The paper has so much cool data and history! Let me know if you need a working paper version of it. Our special thanks go to @jaj7d for organizing this special issue, and to @as_hartnett for providing amazing feedback!.

🇹🇷For Turkey enthusiasts: . Although we use data between 1927 and 1935 in this paper, we have now digitized ALL THE PETITIONS written to the national assembly in the single-party period! . Stay tuned for future projects!

Why? . For the expansion of education to effectively increase state capacity, there must already be a certain baseline level of state capacity in place. Teachers are not unicorns who can magically solve every problem. A village teacher explains the problem perfectly:

We find that the establishment of a primary school does not increase state legitimacy, measured as the probability of submitting a petition to the central government. In fact, only 242 petitions out of 2,885 originated from villages during the four years under examination!

✍️We value petitions as a gauge of the new state's legitimacy, particularly those directed to the central government. 👨‍⚖️States aiming for a strong central authority will encourage citizens to direct grievances about local elites or even its bureaucrats to the government itself.

We test these competing arguments using an original dataset from the early Republican era in Turkey (1927–1935). We use data on village primary schools, petitions sent from villages to the national parliament, and other village-level economic, social, and political indicators.

On one hand, teachers enhance state legitimacy by bridging gaps with the government through non-threatening daily interactions, unlike feared tax or police officials. On the other, they alone are not a solution for the.myriad challenges that affect state-society relations.