Mert Moral
@mertmoral
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Associate Professor of Political Science @sabanciu studying electoral behavior, polarization, methods, and comparative and Turkish politics
Istanbul, Turkey
Joined August 2010
The application deadline for the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards, of which the theme for the year 2026 was chosen as “Planetary Realities: Rethinking Governance Beyond Borders”, has been extended to February 17th, 2026. ⭐️ Click the link for
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A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the invention of smartphones and the advent of social media, which both appeared around the same year, 2008. Both profoundly changed the way humans communicate and this rise of connectivity may have fueled
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Türk futbolunda Adalet, liyakat ve kurumsal ciddiyet çağrımız nettir. Bu yönetim anlayışıyla devam edilemez. #TFFİSTİFA
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I’m excited to share that the second chapter of my dissertation has just been published in Government and Opposition! 🎉 If you're interested in party politics, representation, or protest behavior, you can read the open-access piece here: https://t.co/ooLBAoJbzA
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Winner and Loser or Bigger and Smaller: The Role of Party Size on Protest Behaviour - Volume 61
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Geçen hafta kendisini eleştirdiğim için bana özelden çirkin bir dille mesaj atan @cuneytozdemir bugünkü yayınında yine somut hiçbir veriye dayanmayan bir iftira atmış, ilaveten beni akademisyenlik yapmamakla suçlamış. İftiralarına cevap vermek isterim. “Etkilihaber” hesabından
canlı yayın başladı... ERDOĞAN'IN ATATÜRK ELŞETİRİLERİNE BALANS AYARI, CHP'Yİ YÖNETMEYE ÇALIŞAN...
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İPM Onursal Direktörü, Sabancı Üniversitesi Rektör Yardımcısı, akademinin ve kamunun saygın ismi Prof. Dr. Fuat Keyman’ı aramızdan ayrılışının birinci yılında saygı, minnet ve özlemle anıyoruz.
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🚨🚨 What was the role of inflation in the 2024 US Presidential Election? Just out at @BJPolS, with fabulous colleagues @daniel_mcdowell and David A. Steinberg.
NEW - Inflation and Incumbent Support: Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election - https://t.co/Ml9MQDZqz9 - @se_aytac, @daniel_mcdowell & David A. Steinberg (@SAISHopkins) #OpenAccess
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USGS, dünkü depremin şiddet dağılım haritasını yayınlamış ( https://t.co/YsFAmMr7mz). Mahalle sınırlarını dikkate alıp ağırlıklandırınca böyle görünüyor:
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🎉 Tebrikler! 🎓 Mezunlarımız ve öğrencilerimiz, Siyaset Bilimi doktora programlarına kabul edilerek büyük bir başarıya imza attı. Kendilerini gönülden kutluyor, akademik yolculuklarında başarılar diliyoruz! 🌟 #sabanciuniversityfass @sabanciu
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My latest paper is now available in Political Communication. I use big media data to study an information management strategy, which I refer to as reference point adjustment, employed by pro-government media during an economic crisis. Full paper is here:
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In the era of democratic backsliding, information management and manipulation have become a central feature of electoral autocracies. Despite many electoral autocracies experiencing deep economic c...
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Anket metodolojisi dersinin finalini yaptık, darısı yüksek lisans ve doktora öğrencilerinin başına…
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New article from me about polling in 2024. Are the pollsters who did the best in 2024 and 2020 on to something? Or are they just pushing their data toward Republicans and getting lucky when everyone else gets hit by nonresponse? The answer might be a little of both.
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NEW - Choosing Democracy Over Party? How Civic Education Can Mitigate the Anti-Democratic Effects of Partisan Polarization - https://t.co/rJUaijF01K - @mheroglu, Steven E. Finkel, @AnjaNeundorf, @aykut_ozturk_ & @ericka_rascon
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Sabancı Üniversitesi'nden bir öğrencimiz haksız yere Silivri cezaevinde tutuklu olarak tutuluyor. @sabanciu #GençleriSerbestBırakın
🇹🇷Sabancı Üniversitesi Endüstri Mühendisliği öğrencisi Alp Eren; “Cumartesi gecesi Saraçhane’deki mitinge gittim. Alana girerken yerde bir bayrak buldum, onu alıp sallamaya başladım. Dönüşte arkamdan büyük bir kalabalığın koşmakta olduğunu fark ettim. Polis üzerlerine biber gazı
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The first article from our 2025 volume is The British Academy Brian Barry Prize Essay: Learning From the Enemies of Freedom: Freedom of Expression and Collective Power - https://t.co/Mv8L6MlI9b - Faik Kurtulmus (@sabanciu) #OpenAccess
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Percentage of U.S. 12th graders who have a driver’s license, who’ve ever tried alcohol, who ever go on dates, and who worked for pay at any point during the last school year. [Link below.]
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📢 POLS TALKS: On The Effects Of The Earthquakes On Electoral Behavior In The May 2023 Turkish ParliamentAry And Presidential Elections On December 26, 2024, Dr. Mert Moral (Associate Professor, Political Science & International Relations, Sabancı University) will deliver a talk
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Including data from the 2023 Turkey general election.
CSES Announcement - The First Advance Release of CSES Module 6, containing seven election studies, is now available. The dataset and documentation may be downloaded from the CSES website for free. For more information please visit: https://t.co/fQiJCbachf
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