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Sabri Ciftci
Kansas State University
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: (785) 532-3514
222 Waters Hall
Kansas State University Dept of Political Science
Manhattan KS 66506
United States
ABOUT
Sabri Ciftci is an associate professor and Michael W. Suleiman Chair in Arab and Arab-American Studies in the Department of Political Science at Kansas State University. His research focuses on Arab public opinion, Muslim political attitudes, Islam and Democracy, and Turkish foreign policy. Ciftci is the principal investigator of Turkish Parliamentarians Study and Youth Attitudes Toward Foreign Policy Survey. His most recent research examines political tolerance and anti-Americanism in the Middle East.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Comparative
Democratization
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modernization
Turkish Studies
Islamic Studies
Arab Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Islamic World
Turkey
Arab States
All Middle East
Specialties
Middle East, Democratization, Public Opinion
Arab Public Opinion, Muslim Political Attitudes
Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkish Politics
Languages
Turkish (native)
English (fluent)
Arabic (elementary)
Ottoman (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2005 | Political Science | Florida State University
MS | 2004 | Political Science | Florida State University
BA | 1994 | Public administration | Ankara University
Abstracts
Democratic Values, Sharia, and the Freedom Gap: explaining support for democracy and Sharia in the Arab world Parties after Revolution: The Social and Ideological Origins of Political Parties in the Middle East Representation and Ethnic Conflict: Kurdish Insurgency and Parliamentary Behavior in Turkey Limitations in Arab public opinion survey data: A context-dependent model of measuring religiosity and regime preferences in the Arab world