Research
My published and ongoing research can be categorized under three interdependent branches: collective action and public policy, cognitive social (political) structures, and social networks and polarization. You can visit my Google Scholar page here.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2023. Political Polarization during Extreme Events (with Louise Comfort and Ozgur Martin). Natural Hazards Review, 24(1). Link .
2022. Cognitive Political Networks: A Structural Approach to Measure Political Polarization in Multi-party Systems(with Ali Çarkoğlu and S. Erdem Aytaç). Social Networks, 68. Link. PDF .
2021. Social Networks and Strike Participation: A Dynamic Analysis of the Hollywood Writers Strike(with Michael Siciliano , Erin McGrath and Molly McGrath). British Journal of Industrial Relations. Published Online. Link.PDF.
2020. The Dynamics of Change Following Extreme Events: Transition, Scale, and Adaptation in Systems Under Stress (with Louise Comfort, Thomas Haase). Administration and Society, 52(6). Link . PDF.
2020. Collective Action, Civil Society, and Public Policy in Turkey. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 22 (1). Link. PDF.
2019. Perception Accuracy, Biases and Path Dependency in Longitudinal Social Networks (with Michael Siciliano and Deniz Yenigün). PloS One, 14 (6), e0218607. Link.
2017. Omission and Commission Errors in Network Cognition and Network Estimation using ROC Curve (with Deniz Yenigün and Michael Siciliano). Social Networks, 50. Link. PDF.
2017. The Roots of Community Resilience: A Comparative Analysis of Structural Change in Four Gulf Coast Hurricane Response Networks, (with Louise Comfort, Thomas Haase). Homeland Security Affairs, 13. Link.
2016. Risk, Profit, Safety: Sociotechnical Systems under Stress (with Louise Comfort, Burcak Basbug, and Jungwon Yeo). Safety Science, 88, 199–210. Link. PDF
2013. Networks of Action in Catastrophic Events: The 11 March 2011 Tohoku-Oki Disasters (with Louise Comfort and Aya Okada). Earthquake Spectra, 29 (1), 387–402. Link. PDF.
2012. Estimating Network Structure via Random Sampling: Cognitive Social Structures and the Adaptive Threshold Method (with Deniz Yenigun and Michael Siciliano). Social Networks, 34 (4), 585– 600. Link. PDF.
2009. The Dynamics of Disaster Recovery: Resilience and Entropy in Hurricane Response Systems (with Louise Comfort and Namkyung Oh). Public Organization Review, 9 (4), 309–323. Link.
Books and Book Chapters
2022. Cognition, Communication, and Collective Action: Turkey’s Response to Covid-19 (with Ali Çarkoglu). In Global Crisis Management: The Role of Collective Cognition in Response to COVID-19 (eds. L. K. Comfort and M. L. Rhodes ). Forthcoming Routledge. Link.
2018. Policy Analysis in Turkey (edited with Caner Bakir). University of Bristol: Policy Press.Link.
2018. Policy Analysis in Civil Society Organizations. In Policy Analysis in Turkey (eds Bakir, C. and Ertan, G.). University of Bristol: Policy Press.
2018. Pushing the Pendulum From Politics to Policy: State of Policy Analysis in Turkey (with Caner Bakir). In Policy Analysis in Turkey (eds Bakir, C. and Ertan, G.). University of Bristol: Policy Press.
2010. Designing Adaptive Systems for Disaster Mitigation and Response: The Role of Structure (with Louise Comfort, Steve Scheinert, and Namkyung Oh). In Designing Resilience: Preparing for Extreme Events, edited by Louise Comfort, Arjen Boin, and Chris Demchak. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Proceedings
2019. Disasters and Social Media . Complex Networks Proceedings, 8, 529. Link.
2016. A ROC Curve Approach to Estimating Interpersonal Networks (with Deniz Yenigün and Michael Siciliano) JSM Proceedings, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science.Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, pp.2932-2939.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles in Turkey
2020. Civil Society and Disaster Management: Case of Marmara Earthquake. ESODER. 19. 2044-2056. Link.
2019. Mobilization Networks and the Outcomes of Neighborhood Protests in Ankara, Journal of Ankara Studies, 7, 303-320. Link.
2019. (In Turkish) Trust in Political Institutions in Turkey: Cultural and Institutional Explanations and the "Home Team" Effect (with S. Erdem Aytaç and Ali Çarkoglu) , Hacettepe University Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences 37, 65-88. Link.
2017. (In Turkish) Interpersonal Social Trust in Turkey and Its Individual-level Determinants (with S. Erdem Aytaç and Ali Çarkoglu), METU Studies in Development, 44, 1-25. Link.