Diğdem Soyaltın
Biographic Data
| ID | 4781306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diğdem Soyaltın |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diğdem |
| FAMILY NAME | Soyaltın |
| SIGNATURE | SOYALTIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7221-517X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Strategic Use of Narratives and Governance of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Major Autocratisers in Europe
By the end of 2022, scholars had published heavily on authoritarian consolidation at the time of COVID-19 and explored how governments adopted measures weakening democratic checks and balances yet strengthened their regimes during the COVID crisis. Yet, we do not know much about how political leaders narrated the pandemic in their domestic and foreign policy choices in a way that reinforces their power. By focusing on the major autocratisers in E…
Ecofeminist struggle for epistemic recognition beyond the EU? The case of Akbelen Forest in Turkey
The European Union (EU), renowned as a green normative power, has adopted ambitious policies to promote a more inclusive and just approach to global climate governance. Existing research has already highlighted how excluding issues related to gender and social inequities from the European Green Deal undermines the EU’s green credentials. Yet, what is often overlooked, is that the EU’s gender- and justice-blind climate policies also perpetuate epi…
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival
The emerging middle powers in the Global South increasingly seek to produce domestic defence technologies. Drones in particular have become an important feature of middle power activism. The existing literature heavily focuses on the outcomes of the diffusion of drone technologies for regional and global politics. Yet not much has been written on the domestic impact of home-grown military technologies in middle powers. Therefore, we ask how the m…
How to capture the judiciary under the guise of EU-led reforms
The recent backsliding in judicial independence and erosion of rule of law in Turkey follow the findings of the existing literature which already informed us about the pathological effects and unintended consequences of the external promotion of the EU conditions. Yet, we know little about the domestic strategies of the governments that enable them to capture the judiciary under the guise of EU-led reforms. This article argues that the frequent a…
Illiberal challenges to the European Union’s legitimacy from within and without
This study revisits the academic debate on rising populism and illiberalism in Europe that reduces the EU’s crises to those involving ‘liberal EU’ and ‘illiberal regimes’ without necessarily differentiating between these regimes. Applying Suchman’s multidimensional account of legitimacy to the EU, it unpacks the varying domestic contestations of two illiberal regimes against the different components of EU legitimacy within the context of two rece…
When does bureaucracy function in autocratizing regimes? the court of auditors in Turkey
Turkey has experienced a radical political transformation within the last decade. The promising reforms of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in its early years have gradually given way to autocratic politics. The transition to a presidential regime has further widened the executive's control over the institutional checks and bureaucratic accountability mechanisms. Yet, the Court of Auditors -Turkey's supreme audit institutionhas continued t…
The EU Accession Process, Chinese Finance and Rising Corruption in Western Balkan Stabilitocracies
As front runners in the EU accession process, Serbia and Montenegro have failed to control corruption yet managed to advance along the path to EU integration. Although they have stronger state capacity compared to other Western Balkan countries, the two have recently reverted to previous poor governance practices after initial headway meeting EU good governance conditions. An in-depth analysis of the two countries explains this paradox as the res…
(Un)Democratic change and use of social sanctions for domestic politics
Monitoring is the formal instrument through which the Council of Europe imposes social sanctions on its member countries by publicly exposing their wrongdoings. As a soft governance tool, monitoring is argued to have a limited impact on state policies. Yet, in Turkey, Council of Europe monitoring worked to promote pro-democratic change and then backfired through the escalation of authoritarian practices. This article shows that being subjected to…
Sanctions and Social Pressure in International and Regional Anti-Corruption Regimes
Uluslararası yaptırımlar, devletlerin üyesi oldukları kurumların prensiplerini ihlal eden politikalarına karşı kullanılan önemlerdir. Ekonomik, cezai ve hukuki yaptırımların ihlalci ülkelerde sınırlı etkiye sahip olması bir alternatif yöntem olarak kınama, ikna ve özellikle akran değerlendirmesine dayalı sosyal baskıyı öne çıkarmaktadır. Sosyal baskı, devletlerin üyesi oldukları kurumların değerlendirme takımları tarafından ortaya konan politika …
The EU’s ‘actions-without-sanctions’? The politics of the rule of law crisis in many Europes
This paper examines the European Union (EU)'s actions regarding the rule of law (RoL) crisis in Hungary and Poland. As alignment among three EU institutions – European Parliament, European Commission and European Council – is required for the enforcement of the punitive measures under Article 7 of the Treaty on EU, existing studies, to a great extent, rely on the conflict between the intergovernmental and supranational levels to account for the E…
Public sector reforms to fight corruption in Turkey
This article examines the practical application of legal reforms to fight corruption in Turkey, focusing on three policy sectors: civil administration, public finance management and public procurement. Facing increasing pressure, incumbent governments have adopted international anti-corruption norms and programs in the last two decades. However, the adoption and adaptation of formal institutions tends to remain decoupled from informal behavioral …
Beyond the Rhetorics of Compliance
The Transition to Democracy in Hungary
This book comes at a time when Hungary, one of the early front-runners of democratic transition, is drifting away from liberal democratic values. While membership of the European Union (EU) enabled
Zooming into the ‘Domestic’ in Europeanization
Since the credibility of the European Union (EU) conditionality for Turkey has significantly weakened after 2005, compliance with the EU requirements has become less likely. However, we observe continuing reforms in the fight against corruption and minority rights, which is rather puzzling. Given the limited impact of the EU incentives, this paper brings back the ‘domestic’ into the analysis by exploring the role of various domestic actors, such …
European integration and transformation in the Western Balkans Europeanization or business as usual
Europeanization has become a ‘buzzword’ in the analyses exploring the impact of the EU on the domestic structures of its member-states, acceding countries and candidates. With the enlargement of th
The Black Sea Region and EU Policy
Expecting the Unforeseeable
This study presents an analysis of how the media reported the 2007 elections in Turkey. Past research on election campaign media coverage, particularly newspapers, suggests that the media can play an important role in informing voters. However, much of the research on campaign media coverage has focused on Western democracies with little attention paid to how features of the media system such as press regulations, ownership structures, journalist…
(Un)Democratic change and use of social sanctions for domestic politics
Monitoring is the formal instrument through which the Council of Europe imposes social sanctions on its member countries by publicly exposing their wrongdoings. As a soft governance tool, monitoring is argued to have a limited impact on state policies. Yet, in Turkey, Council of Europe monitoring worked to promote pro-democratic change and then backfired through the escalation of authoritarian practices. This article shows that being subjected to…
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival
The emerging middle powers in the Global South increasingly seek to produce domestic defence technologies. Drones in particular have become an important feature of middle power activism. The existing literature heavily focuses on the outcomes of the diffusion of drone technologies for regional and global politics. Yet not much has been written on the domestic impact of home-grown military technologies in middle powers. Therefore, we ask how the m…
When does bureaucracy function in autocratizing regimes? the court of auditors in Turkey
Turkey has experienced a radical political transformation within the last decade. The promising reforms of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in its early years have gradually given way to autocratic politics. The transition to a presidential regime has further widened the executive's control over the institutional checks and bureaucratic accountability mechanisms. Yet, the Court of Auditors -Turkey's supreme audit institutionhas continued t…
The EU’s ‘actions-without-sanctions’? The politics of the rule of law crisis in many Europes
This paper examines the European Union (EU)'s actions regarding the rule of law (RoL) crisis in Hungary and Poland. As alignment among three EU institutions – European Parliament, European Commission and European Council – is required for the enforcement of the punitive measures under Article 7 of the Treaty on EU, existing studies, to a great extent, rely on the conflict between the intergovernmental and supranational levels to account for the E…
Public sector reforms to fight corruption in Turkey
This article examines the practical application of legal reforms to fight corruption in Turkey, focusing on three policy sectors: civil administration, public finance management and public procurement. Facing increasing pressure, incumbent governments have adopted international anti-corruption norms and programs in the last two decades. However, the adoption and adaptation of formal institutions tends to remain decoupled from informal behavioral …
Expecting the Unforeseeable
This study presents an analysis of how the media reported the 2007 elections in Turkey. Past research on election campaign media coverage, particularly newspapers, suggests that the media can play an important role in informing voters. However, much of the research on campaign media coverage has focused on Western democracies with little attention paid to how features of the media system such as press regulations, ownership structures, journalist…
Ecofeminist struggle for epistemic recognition beyond the EU? The case of Akbelen Forest in Turkey
The European Union (EU), renowned as a green normative power, has adopted ambitious policies to promote a more inclusive and just approach to global climate governance. Existing research has already highlighted how excluding issues related to gender and social inequities from the European Green Deal undermines the EU’s green credentials. Yet, what is often overlooked, is that the EU’s gender- and justice-blind climate policies also perpetuate epi…
The EU Accession Process, Chinese Finance and Rising Corruption in Western Balkan Stabilitocracies
As front runners in the EU accession process, Serbia and Montenegro have failed to control corruption yet managed to advance along the path to EU integration. Although they have stronger state capacity compared to other Western Balkan countries, the two have recently reverted to previous poor governance practices after initial headway meeting EU good governance conditions. An in-depth analysis of the two countries explains this paradox as the res…
Illiberal challenges to the European Union’s legitimacy from within and without
This study revisits the academic debate on rising populism and illiberalism in Europe that reduces the EU’s crises to those involving ‘liberal EU’ and ‘illiberal regimes’ without necessarily differentiating between these regimes. Applying Suchman’s multidimensional account of legitimacy to the EU, it unpacks the varying domestic contestations of two illiberal regimes against the different components of EU legitimacy within the context of two rece…
Expecting the Unforeseeable
This study presents an analysis of how the media reported the 2007 elections in Turkey. Past research on election campaign media coverage, particularly newspapers, suggests that the media can play an important role in informing voters. However, much of the research on campaign media coverage has focused on Western democracies with little attention paid to how features of the media system such as press regulations, ownership structures, journalist…
The Black Sea Region and EU Policy
European integration and transformation in the Western Balkans Europeanization or business as usual
Europeanization has become a ‘buzzword’ in the analyses exploring the impact of the EU on the domestic structures of its member-states, acceding countries and candidates. With the enlargement of th
Zooming into the ‘Domestic’ in Europeanization
Since the credibility of the European Union (EU) conditionality for Turkey has significantly weakened after 2005, compliance with the EU requirements has become less likely. However, we observe continuing reforms in the fight against corruption and minority rights, which is rather puzzling. Given the limited impact of the EU incentives, this paper brings back the ‘domestic’ into the analysis by exploring the role of various domestic actors, such …
The Transition to Democracy in Hungary
This book comes at a time when Hungary, one of the early front-runners of democratic transition, is drifting away from liberal democratic values. While membership of the European Union (EU) enabled
Beyond the Rhetorics of Compliance
Public sector reforms to fight corruption in Turkey
This article examines the practical application of legal reforms to fight corruption in Turkey, focusing on three policy sectors: civil administration, public finance management and public procurement. Facing increasing pressure, incumbent governments have adopted international anti-corruption norms and programs in the last two decades. However, the adoption and adaptation of formal institutions tends to remain decoupled from informal behavioral …
Sanctions and Social Pressure in International and Regional Anti-Corruption Regimes
Uluslararası yaptırımlar, devletlerin üyesi oldukları kurumların prensiplerini ihlal eden politikalarına karşı kullanılan önemlerdir. Ekonomik, cezai ve hukuki yaptırımların ihlalci ülkelerde sınırlı etkiye sahip olması bir alternatif yöntem olarak kınama, ikna ve özellikle akran değerlendirmesine dayalı sosyal baskıyı öne çıkarmaktadır. Sosyal baskı, devletlerin üyesi oldukları kurumların değerlendirme takımları tarafından ortaya konan politika …
The EU’s ‘actions-without-sanctions’? The politics of the rule of law crisis in many Europes
This paper examines the European Union (EU)'s actions regarding the rule of law (RoL) crisis in Hungary and Poland. As alignment among three EU institutions – European Parliament, European Commission and European Council – is required for the enforcement of the punitive measures under Article 7 of the Treaty on EU, existing studies, to a great extent, rely on the conflict between the intergovernmental and supranational levels to account for the E…
(Un)Democratic change and use of social sanctions for domestic politics
Monitoring is the formal instrument through which the Council of Europe imposes social sanctions on its member countries by publicly exposing their wrongdoings. As a soft governance tool, monitoring is argued to have a limited impact on state policies. Yet, in Turkey, Council of Europe monitoring worked to promote pro-democratic change and then backfired through the escalation of authoritarian practices. This article shows that being subjected to…
How to capture the judiciary under the guise of EU-led reforms
The recent backsliding in judicial independence and erosion of rule of law in Turkey follow the findings of the existing literature which already informed us about the pathological effects and unintended consequences of the external promotion of the EU conditions. Yet, we know little about the domestic strategies of the governments that enable them to capture the judiciary under the guise of EU-led reforms. This article argues that the frequent a…
Illiberal challenges to the European Union’s legitimacy from within and without
This study revisits the academic debate on rising populism and illiberalism in Europe that reduces the EU’s crises to those involving ‘liberal EU’ and ‘illiberal regimes’ without necessarily differentiating between these regimes. Applying Suchman’s multidimensional account of legitimacy to the EU, it unpacks the varying domestic contestations of two illiberal regimes against the different components of EU legitimacy within the context of two rece…
When does bureaucracy function in autocratizing regimes? the court of auditors in Turkey
Turkey has experienced a radical political transformation within the last decade. The promising reforms of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in its early years have gradually given way to autocratic politics. The transition to a presidential regime has further widened the executive's control over the institutional checks and bureaucratic accountability mechanisms. Yet, the Court of Auditors -Turkey's supreme audit institutionhas continued t…
The EU Accession Process, Chinese Finance and Rising Corruption in Western Balkan Stabilitocracies
As front runners in the EU accession process, Serbia and Montenegro have failed to control corruption yet managed to advance along the path to EU integration. Although they have stronger state capacity compared to other Western Balkan countries, the two have recently reverted to previous poor governance practices after initial headway meeting EU good governance conditions. An in-depth analysis of the two countries explains this paradox as the res…
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival
The emerging middle powers in the Global South increasingly seek to produce domestic defence technologies. Drones in particular have become an important feature of middle power activism. The existing literature heavily focuses on the outcomes of the diffusion of drone technologies for regional and global politics. Yet not much has been written on the domestic impact of home-grown military technologies in middle powers. Therefore, we ask how the m…
The Strategic Use of Narratives and Governance of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Major Autocratisers in Europe
By the end of 2022, scholars had published heavily on authoritarian consolidation at the time of COVID-19 and explored how governments adopted measures weakening democratic checks and balances yet strengthened their regimes during the COVID crisis. Yet, we do not know much about how political leaders narrated the pandemic in their domestic and foreign policy choices in a way that reinforces their power. By focusing on the major autocratisers in E…
Ecofeminist struggle for epistemic recognition beyond the EU? The case of Akbelen Forest in Turkey
The European Union (EU), renowned as a green normative power, has adopted ambitious policies to promote a more inclusive and just approach to global climate governance. Existing research has already highlighted how excluding issues related to gender and social inequities from the European Green Deal undermines the EU’s green credentials. Yet, what is often overlooked, is that the EU’s gender- and justice-blind climate policies also perpetuate epi…
Political science (17 works) · Law (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (7 works) · European union (5 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (5 works)