S. Erdem Aytaç
seaytac.bsky.social
S. Erdem Aytaç
@seaytac.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Political Science at Koç University. Research on political behavior, political participation, electoral accountability. Yale PhD. PI, ERC StG DEPOLARIZE

https://sites.google.com/view/seaytac
My department is hiring! A junior position in IR with a focus on IPE. Feel free to reach for questions. More info: jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...
https://jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positions…
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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S. Erdem Aytaç, David Steinberg and I have a new experimental study out now in @bjpols.bsky.social exploring the impact of inflation on support for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. TL;DR: price increases hurt Harris' popularity, especially among Ds and Is, and in regions hit hardest by inflation.
NEW -

Inflation and Incumbent Support: Experimental Evidence from the 2024 US Presidential Election - https://cup.org/3JaiZYj

"priming Americans to think about inflation reduced support for the incumbent party"

- Selim Erdem Aytaç, @danielmcdowell.bsky.social & David A. Steinberg

#OpenAccess
October 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
@campaign-lab.bsky.social. All info 👇
www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab
LSE Collaborative Studentship with Campaign Lab
www.lse.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇
🔗 politicsexperiment.com
Home Page - A Political Science Experiment
politicsexperiment.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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🚨 We're hiring!
Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment.
Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊
www.gesis.org/en/institute...
July 16, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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🧵 THREAD: Can a short online intervention help defend democracy against partisan polarization?

In our new study - just published in the @bjpols.bsky.social - my colleagues and I tested this question across 33 countries 🌍 with over 41,000 participants 🧑‍🤝‍🧑.

Here’s what we found 👇
April 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Our article, "Populist Appeals, Emotions, and Political Mobilization," with Erdem Aytaç and Ali Çarkoğlu, now has volume and page numbers. It is also open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @seaytac.bsky.social @absjournal.bsky.social
Populist Appeals, Emotions, and Political Mobilization - Selim Erdem Aytaç, Ali Çarkoğlu, Ezgi Elçi, 2025
Populist politicians frequently employ anti-establishment appeals in their discourse by targeting an imagined or real power elite. Do such appeals have a mobili...
journals.sagepub.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Less than two weeks left to apply to the #ISPPAcademy in Prague! See link for more information:

ispp.org/resources/ac...
February 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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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:
cses.org/2024/12/17/m...
December 19, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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My department is hiring! This is a junior position, preferably, though not necessarily, with a focus on CP or IPE fields. I am not on the committee but feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...
Assistant Professor in International Relations | KU Jobs
jobs.ku.edu.tr
November 14, 2024 at 9:33 AM
My department is hiring! This is a junior position, preferably, though not necessarily, with a focus on CP or IPE fields. I am not on the committee but feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...
Assistant Professor in International Relations | KU Jobs
jobs.ku.edu.tr
November 14, 2024 at 9:33 AM
🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨1-year post-doc position available in my ERC project DEPOLARIZE to be based at the University of Chicago !!! Start date is January 2025 (with some flexibility), more information available at drive.google.com/file/d/1_xYS...
DEPOLARIZE_postdoc_US.pdf
drive.google.com
October 8, 2024 at 1:44 PM
📢🚨 My department is hiring!! Assistant Prof. level, open to all subfields but IPE and Comparative Politics scholars are especially encouraged. Feel free to reach me for questions and please spread the word!! jobs.ku.edu.tr/open_positio...
“Faculty Position in International Relations” | KU Jobs
jobs.ku.edu.tr
November 1, 2023 at 5:33 PM
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Check out this new special issue in Electoral Studies: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/elec... It contains 7 cool articles on the nature and causes of AP - using observational and experimental data, focusing on measurement, elites and ideology, and an important theoretical piece as well.
September 29, 2023 at 9:50 AM