The Turkish Policy Agendas Project

Bulut, Alper; Yıldırım, Tevfik Murat

doi:10.1093/oso/9780198835332.003.0019

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“…We make use of two original datasets that include over thirty-five thousand parliamentary speeches and the demographic and political characteristics of representatives who served in the GNAT between 1995 and 2011. The parliamentary questions were first content-coded based on the coding scheme of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) and then collapsed by individual MPs to merge with representative characteristics (see Bulut and Yildirim 2019). As the second step, we have compiled data about MPs’ renomination and changes in the party rank over four election cycles, which left us with 2,140 MPs who served in the parliament during the period under investigation.…”

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Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

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Ecevit

2019

Political Research Quarterly

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The literature on nomination procedures and intra-party politics shows that engagement in personalized parliamentary activities helps legislators get re-elected and promoted in the party list. However, as a considerable body of scholarly work suggests, women in leadership positions who are perceived to disconfirm the well-known gender stereotypes by being “too assertive” and “agentic” in the workplace may suffer from what social psychologists call the “backlash effect” (i.e., facing economic and social sanctions). Integrating insights from the literatures on perceptions of female leadership and intra-party politics, we reveal the differential effect of legislative speechmaking on the career prospects of male and female members of parliament (MPs). Specifically, using an original dataset of over thirty-five thousand parliamentary speeches and the biographies of 2,140 MPs who served in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey between 1995 and 2011, we show that the well-documented positive effect of engagement in parliamentary activities on career prospects holds for male MPs, but not for their female counterparts. In fact, we found that female MPs who were active on the legislative floor were significantly less likely to get renominated and promoted in the party rank. These results imply that the challenges facing women in leadership positions go beyond electoral competition.

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Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

Yıldırım

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Ecevit

2019

Political Research Quarterly

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“…The majority of the bills coded as feminist bills address issues such as violence against women, prenatal rights, women’s labor force participation, and gender pay gaps. In order to see the general patterns of PMBs initiation among male and female MPs, I have also coded PMBs into feminine and masculine issue areas following Bäck and Debus (2019) and adapting their categorization to the Turkish Policy Agendas Project (Bulut and Yildirim 2019, 2020). The categorization of CAP topics to feminine and masculine issue areas as well as sample coding of the data is presented in the online appendix.…”

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What Drives Women’s Substantive Representation in Muslim-Majority Countries? Lessons from Turkey

Bulut

2020

Political Research Quarterly

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Although a voluminous literature has studied the substantive representation of women, these studies have largely been confined to advanced democracies. Similarly, studies that focus on the relationship between Islam and women’s rights largely ignored the substantive representation of women in Muslim-majority countries. As one of the first studies of its kind, this article investigates the role of religion in the substantive representation of women by focusing on a Muslim-majority country: Turkey. Using a novel data set of 4,700 content coded private members’ bills (PMBs) drafted in the Turkish parliament between 2002 and 2015, this article synthesizes competing explanations of women’s representation in the Middle East and rigorously tests the implications of religion, ideology, critical mass, and labor force participation accounts. The results have significant implications for the study of gender and politics in Muslim-majority countries.

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“…In order for an activity to be constituencyoriented, it should mention MP's electoral district or the organizations and events that are known to have taken place in the province. The coders then assigned a topic category to each parliamentary activity using the codebook of the Turkish Policy Agendas Project (Bulut and Yildirim ) . Finally, these assigned topics were recoded as “hard,” “soft,” or “neutral” following Bäck, Debus, and Müller's () issue classification.…”

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Politics of Constituency Representation and Legislative Ambition under the Glare of Camera Lights

Yıldırım

2019

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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The introduction of legislative television as a transparency initiative has been welcomed in an increasing number of democracies. The impact of television cameras on parliamentary behavior, however, has received scant attention in systems where personal vote‐earning attributes are thought to be of little importance (e.g., closed‐list proportional representation). Additionally, studies examining this relationship relied exclusively on over‐time variation in legislative behavior (i.e., before and after the introduction of television into parliament), which arguably has important deficiencies in demonstrating the true effect of legislative television. Capitalizing on a unique quasi‐experimental setting, the present study aims to close these gaps in the literature by analyzing parliamentary activities in Turkey, where the legislative television was restricted to 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) in 2011 after almost two decades of continuous 7‐day operation. Results based on original data sets of parliamentary activities from the pre‐ and postreform periods (2009–11 and 2011–13) indicate that the varying presence of television cameras exacerbated the effect of electoral and reputation‐building motivations on parliamentary behavior, encouraging electorally unsafe and junior MPs to shift their constituency focus to the televised proceedings. The results offer important implications for the study of legislative transparency and constituency representation in party‐list proportional representation systems.

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The Turkish Policy Agendas Project

Cited by 9 publications

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Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

What Drives Women’s Substantive Representation in Muslim-Majority Countries? Lessons from Turkey

Politics of Constituency Representation and Legislative Ambition under the Glare of Camera Lights

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