Sibel Oktay
Biographic Data
| ID | 4377928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sibel Oktay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sibel |
| FAMILY NAME | Oktay |
| SIGNATURE | OKTAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois at Springfield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9346-1505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dialogue instead of mutual neglect? International political economy meets foreign policy analysis
This forum opens up a dialogue between two subfields of International Relations (IR) that have so far talked past, rather than with, each other: international political economy (IPE) and foreign policy analysis (FPA). Many scholars of IPE or FPA would welcome more cross-pollination in principle but remain reluctant to embrace specific concepts, theories or issues from each other. Our forum seeks to address the underlying structural and conceptual…
Crisis Leadership in the Time of Covid
Why were some countries faster than others at introducing COVID-19 mitigation policies? Existing research shows that leaders are central to defining and making sense of crises, which then shapes their governments’ crisis response. I argue that crisis-sense-making depends on leaders’ personality traits pertaining to how they perceive their power status, collect and process information, and interact with their environment, subsequently influencing …
Statistical Analysis
Statistical analysis lies at the heart of all quantitative research in foreign policy. It relies on a large number of data points (large-N datasets) to investigate whether an empirical relationship exists between key variables of interest and whether this relationship is statistically and substantively meaningful. The most used statistical analysis technique in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is regression analysis. It helps us model and predict th…
Governing Abroad
Chamber of opportunities
This article adopts a ‘party-political’ approach to studying legislative influence on security policy-making. It argues that legislative logrolling constitutes a key mechanism for the government to secure votes in parliament while facilitating the opposition to advance its own interests, especially when the government requires parliament’s consent for security policy. The article investigates legislative logrolling in the context of weak executiv…
Clarity of responsibility and foreign policy performance voting
Do voters’ assessments of the government's foreign policy performance influence their vote intentions? Does the ‘clarity of responsibility’ in government moderate this relationship? Existing research on the United States demonstrates that the electorate's foreign policy evaluations influence voting behaviour. Whether a similar relationship exists across the advanced democracies in Europe remains understudied, as does the role of domestic politica…
Quantitative Approaches in Coalition Foreign Policy
This article surveys the quantitative literature in coalition foreign policy. Tracing its development back to what we call the ‘first generation studies’ in Democratic Peace research, we illustrate that its theoretical and methodological foundations distinguish this literature from its predecessors. We then overview the existing studies along three dimensions: the nature of the dependent variables, the content of the key explanatory variables, an…
Security and the Turkey-EU Accession Process
Constraining or enabling? The effects of government composition on international commitments
The effect of government composition on the ability to make international commitments is an ongoing debate in the literature. Using the veto players and clarity of responsibility theories, I introduce a nuanced understanding of government composition that considers the different types of multiparty governments and the degree of policy incongruence inside them. I test the effects of these variables on the intensity of international commitments wit…
Chamber of opportunities
This article adopts a ‘party-political’ approach to studying legislative influence on security policy-making. It argues that legislative logrolling constitutes a key mechanism for the government to secure votes in parliament while facilitating the opposition to advance its own interests, especially when the government requires parliament’s consent for security policy. The article investigates legislative logrolling in the context of weak executiv…
Constraining or enabling? The effects of government composition on international commitments
The effect of government composition on the ability to make international commitments is an ongoing debate in the literature. Using the veto players and clarity of responsibility theories, I introduce a nuanced understanding of government composition that considers the different types of multiparty governments and the degree of policy incongruence inside them. I test the effects of these variables on the intensity of international commitments wit…
Clarity of responsibility and foreign policy performance voting
Do voters’ assessments of the government's foreign policy performance influence their vote intentions? Does the ‘clarity of responsibility’ in government moderate this relationship? Existing research on the United States demonstrates that the electorate's foreign policy evaluations influence voting behaviour. Whether a similar relationship exists across the advanced democracies in Europe remains understudied, as does the role of domestic politica…
Quantitative Approaches in Coalition Foreign Policy
This article surveys the quantitative literature in coalition foreign policy. Tracing its development back to what we call the ‘first generation studies’ in Democratic Peace research, we illustrate that its theoretical and methodological foundations distinguish this literature from its predecessors. We then overview the existing studies along three dimensions: the nature of the dependent variables, the content of the key explanatory variables, an…
Constraining or enabling? The effects of government composition on international commitments
The effect of government composition on the ability to make international commitments is an ongoing debate in the literature. Using the veto players and clarity of responsibility theories, I introduce a nuanced understanding of government composition that considers the different types of multiparty governments and the degree of policy incongruence inside them. I test the effects of these variables on the intensity of international commitments wit…
Security and the Turkey-EU Accession Process
Quantitative Approaches in Coalition Foreign Policy
This article surveys the quantitative literature in coalition foreign policy. Tracing its development back to what we call the ‘first generation studies’ in Democratic Peace research, we illustrate that its theoretical and methodological foundations distinguish this literature from its predecessors. We then overview the existing studies along three dimensions: the nature of the dependent variables, the content of the key explanatory variables, an…
Chamber of opportunities
This article adopts a ‘party-political’ approach to studying legislative influence on security policy-making. It argues that legislative logrolling constitutes a key mechanism for the government to secure votes in parliament while facilitating the opposition to advance its own interests, especially when the government requires parliament’s consent for security policy. The article investigates legislative logrolling in the context of weak executiv…
Clarity of responsibility and foreign policy performance voting
Do voters’ assessments of the government's foreign policy performance influence their vote intentions? Does the ‘clarity of responsibility’ in government moderate this relationship? Existing research on the United States demonstrates that the electorate's foreign policy evaluations influence voting behaviour. Whether a similar relationship exists across the advanced democracies in Europe remains understudied, as does the role of domestic politica…
Statistical Analysis
Statistical analysis lies at the heart of all quantitative research in foreign policy. It relies on a large number of data points (large-N datasets) to investigate whether an empirical relationship exists between key variables of interest and whether this relationship is statistically and substantively meaningful. The most used statistical analysis technique in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is regression analysis. It helps us model and predict th…
Governing Abroad
Crisis Leadership in the Time of Covid
Why were some countries faster than others at introducing COVID-19 mitigation policies? Existing research shows that leaders are central to defining and making sense of crises, which then shapes their governments’ crisis response. I argue that crisis-sense-making depends on leaders’ personality traits pertaining to how they perceive their power status, collect and process information, and interact with their environment, subsequently influencing …
Dialogue instead of mutual neglect? International political economy meets foreign policy analysis
This forum opens up a dialogue between two subfields of International Relations (IR) that have so far talked past, rather than with, each other: international political economy (IPE) and foreign policy analysis (FPA). Many scholars of IPE or FPA would welcome more cross-pollination in principle but remain reluctant to embrace specific concepts, theories or issues from each other. Our forum seeks to address the underlying structural and conceptual…
Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (3 works) · Foreign policy (3 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (3 works)