Turkuler Isiksel
Biographic Data
| ID | 2013651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Turkuler Isiksel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Turkuler |
| FAMILY NAME | Isiksel |
| SIGNATURE | ISIKSEL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-7564-1483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Voting in Authoritarian Elections
Democratic theorists hold that voting contributes to some political good: individual and collective autonomy, equality, justice, pluralism, stability, better policies, and many others. But elections are common under authoritarianism, and empirical research finds that holding elections can stabilize authoritarian regimes. This creates what we term the democrat's dilemma, where citizens who vote in authoritarian elections may bolster the regimes th…
Pretextual Politics and Democratic Inclusion Comment on Darby
According to Darby, Du Bois rejected the argument from voter ignorance as a legitimate basis for excluding people from the franchise and defended inclusive democracy as the key to empowering the masses to better their condition. As Darby points out, however, the voter ignorance argument functioned primarily as a pretext for robbing African Americans of political rights. I argue that Du Bois’s struggle with the voter ignorance argument (that is to…
Cosmopolitanism and International Economic Institutions
Immanuel Kant viewed economic interdependence among nations as the catalyst for a cosmopolitan legal order. Some of the most advanced international institutions in existence today facilitate such interdependence. Are bodies such as the European Union, World Trade Organization, and North American Free Trade Agreement the harbingers of Kantian cosmopolitan right? This article contends that the commercial motif in Kant's thought deserves greater scr…
Constitutions in Times of Financial Crisis
European Exceptionalism and the EU’s Accession to the ECHR
In its December 2014 opinion, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rejected the draft accession agreement that would have enabled the European Union (EU) to accede to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms on the grounds of its incompatibility with the EU's constitutional structure. The opinion was widely and immediately criticized as evidence of the CJEU's unwillingness to be bridled by another in…
Changing subjects: Rights, remedies and responsibilities of individuals under global legal pluralism
No abstract available
Global legal pluralism as fact and norm
This article interrogates the intellectual foundations of global legal pluralism as a descriptive and normative position, and assesses its core claims with reference to the changing status of individuals in the postnational realm. In order to uncover the normative core of the pluralist position, the article turns to the rich tradition of value pluralism in political philosophy, particularly as articulated by Isaiah Berlin. It argues that as a nor…
Representing justice: Invention, controversy and rights in city-states and democratic courtrooms
On Europe's functional constitutionalism Towards a constitutional theory of specialized international regimes
This paper draws on the development of the European Union's legal order in developing the concept of "functional constitutionalism," which is used to understand and critique the constitutional features of specialized postnational institutions. This concept is intended to highlight the drawbacks of an inflationary use of constitutional terminology in the global governance literature and to emphasize the substantive differences between constitution…
Ancient Battles, New Prejudices, and Future Perspectives: Turkey and the EU
Global legal pluralism as fact and norm
This article interrogates the intellectual foundations of global legal pluralism as a descriptive and normative position, and assesses its core claims with reference to the changing status of individuals in the postnational realm. In order to uncover the normative core of the pluralist position, the article turns to the rich tradition of value pluralism in political philosophy, particularly as articulated by Isaiah Berlin. It argues that as a nor…
Cosmopolitanism and International Economic Institutions
Immanuel Kant viewed economic interdependence among nations as the catalyst for a cosmopolitan legal order. Some of the most advanced international institutions in existence today facilitate such interdependence. Are bodies such as the European Union, World Trade Organization, and North American Free Trade Agreement the harbingers of Kantian cosmopolitan right? This article contends that the commercial motif in Kant's thought deserves greater scr…
Ancient Battles, New Prejudices, and Future Perspectives: Turkey and the EU
Voting in Authoritarian Elections
Democratic theorists hold that voting contributes to some political good: individual and collective autonomy, equality, justice, pluralism, stability, better policies, and many others. But elections are common under authoritarianism, and empirical research finds that holding elections can stabilize authoritarian regimes. This creates what we term the democrat's dilemma, where citizens who vote in authoritarian elections may bolster the regimes th…
Changing subjects: Rights, remedies and responsibilities of individuals under global legal pluralism
No abstract available
European Exceptionalism and the EU’s Accession to the ECHR
In its December 2014 opinion, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rejected the draft accession agreement that would have enabled the European Union (EU) to accede to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms on the grounds of its incompatibility with the EU's constitutional structure. The opinion was widely and immediately criticized as evidence of the CJEU's unwillingness to be bridled by another in…
Representing justice: Invention, controversy and rights in city-states and democratic courtrooms
On Europe's functional constitutionalism Towards a constitutional theory of specialized international regimes
This paper draws on the development of the European Union's legal order in developing the concept of "functional constitutionalism," which is used to understand and critique the constitutional features of specialized postnational institutions. This concept is intended to highlight the drawbacks of an inflationary use of constitutional terminology in the global governance literature and to emphasize the substantive differences between constitution…
Ancient Battles, New Prejudices, and Future Perspectives: Turkey and the EU
On Europe's functional constitutionalism Towards a constitutional theory of specialized international regimes
This paper draws on the development of the European Union's legal order in developing the concept of "functional constitutionalism," which is used to understand and critique the constitutional features of specialized postnational institutions. This concept is intended to highlight the drawbacks of an inflationary use of constitutional terminology in the global governance literature and to emphasize the substantive differences between constitution…
Changing subjects: Rights, remedies and responsibilities of individuals under global legal pluralism
No abstract available
Global legal pluralism as fact and norm
This article interrogates the intellectual foundations of global legal pluralism as a descriptive and normative position, and assesses its core claims with reference to the changing status of individuals in the postnational realm. In order to uncover the normative core of the pluralist position, the article turns to the rich tradition of value pluralism in political philosophy, particularly as articulated by Isaiah Berlin. It argues that as a nor…
Representing justice: Invention, controversy and rights in city-states and democratic courtrooms
European Exceptionalism and the EU’s Accession to the ECHR
In its December 2014 opinion, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rejected the draft accession agreement that would have enabled the European Union (EU) to accede to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms on the grounds of its incompatibility with the EU's constitutional structure. The opinion was widely and immediately criticized as evidence of the CJEU's unwillingness to be bridled by another in…
Constitutions in Times of Financial Crisis
Pretextual Politics and Democratic Inclusion Comment on Darby
According to Darby, Du Bois rejected the argument from voter ignorance as a legitimate basis for excluding people from the franchise and defended inclusive democracy as the key to empowering the masses to better their condition. As Darby points out, however, the voter ignorance argument functioned primarily as a pretext for robbing African Americans of political rights. I argue that Du Bois’s struggle with the voter ignorance argument (that is to…
Cosmopolitanism and International Economic Institutions
Immanuel Kant viewed economic interdependence among nations as the catalyst for a cosmopolitan legal order. Some of the most advanced international institutions in existence today facilitate such interdependence. Are bodies such as the European Union, World Trade Organization, and North American Free Trade Agreement the harbingers of Kantian cosmopolitan right? This article contends that the commercial motif in Kant's thought deserves greater scr…
Voting in Authoritarian Elections
Democratic theorists hold that voting contributes to some political good: individual and collective autonomy, equality, justice, pluralism, stability, better policies, and many others. But elections are common under authoritarianism, and empirical research finds that holding elections can stabilize authoritarian regimes. This creates what we term the democrat's dilemma, where citizens who vote in authoritarian elections may bolster the regimes th…
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