Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Aytug Sasmaz is a PhD candidate at Harvard University. Currently he is working on his dissertation project, which examines the challenges of party-building in the Mediterranean Middle East, particularly Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. He is involved in research projects on the determinants of primary health care quality
in Lebanon, decentralization process and institutional design of local governance in Tunisia, and municipalization of rural governance in Turkey. He holds degrees in political science from Bogazici University, London School of Economics and Brown University. Prior to his doctoral training, Aytug worked
as an education policy analyst at the Education Reform Initiative, a think-tank in Turkey, where he conducted several research projects in collaboration with the Turkish Ministry of National Education, UNICEF, and Turkish Foundation of Education Volunteers.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Comparative
Development
History Of Architecture
Turkish Studies
Political Economy
Mediterranean Studies
Democratization
Geographic Areas of Interest
Turkey
Egypt
Tunisia
Morocco
Mediterranean Countries
Lebanon
Specialties
Political Parties
Social Policy
Local Politics
Languages
Turkish (fluent)
English (fluent)
German (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2021
| Political Science
| Harvard University
MA
| 2014
| Political Science
| Brown
MS
| 2008
| International Political Econ
| LSE
BA
| 2007
| Political Science
| Bogazici
Abstracts
Recruitment and Selection of Candidates for the First Democratic Local Elections in Tunisia: The Tale of Two Parties
Political Selection in Secular-Islamist Competition: The Relative Advantage of Islamist Parties in Candidate Quality
Microfoundations of Support for Power-Sharing: Who Supports and Protests the Sectarian Power-Sharing Regime in Lebanon?
