Biography
Tugba Bozcaga is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Graduate Student Affiliate at Harvard University Center for European Studies. Her research interests lie in the political economy of development, with a focus on service provision, accountability and governance, and distributive politics. Her projects also involve a particular emphasis on political geography and ethnic and sectarian heterogeneity. In her projects, Tugba employs quasi-experimental statistical designs, novel data sources, and hypotheses and research designs informed by qualitative data and fieldwork. Her research has been supported by the Program on Governance and Local Development and the MIT Center for International Studies.
Tugba completed her BA in Economics at Bogaziçi University and her MA at Central European University, with a fellowship from the Open Society Foundations. Prior to coming to MIT, she worked as an EU expert in the Turkish government in the design and evaluation of various civil society, local government, and academic projects and programs. Her other field experience includes work with bureaucrats, international organizations, and immigrant communities in Turkey, Mexico, and Germany.
Papers
Publications
"Assessing Syrian Refugee Integration Using Call Detail Records from Turkey" (with Fotini Christia, Constantinos Daskalakis, Elizabeth Harwood, Christos Papadimitriou), in Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios (Salah, Pentland, Lepri, Letouze, Vinck, de Montjoye, Dong, eds.). Springer. 2019. link
"Enforcement Process Tracing: Forbearance and Dilution in Urban Colombia and Turkey," (with Alisha Holland) Studies in Comparative International Development, 1-24 (4 August 2018). link
"Policy Implications of the D4R Challenge" (with Salah et al.) in Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios (Salah, Pentland, Lepri, Letouze, Vinck, de Montjoye, Dong, eds.). Springer. Forthcoming. link
"The Geography of Gulenism in Turkey" Foreign Policy, 18 March 2019 (with Fotini Christia) link
"Turkish Referendum Rallies in Europe Made Headlines. Did they Affect Election Results?" Monkey Cage/The Washington Post, 6 May 2017 (with Fotini Christia) link
"Women and the welfare state regime of Turkey" Turkish Policy Quarterly 11(4):177-188, Winter 2013. link
Biography
Tugba Bozcaga is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Graduate Student Affiliate at Harvard University Center for European Studies. Her research interests lie in the political economy of development, with a focus on service provision, accountability and governance, and distributive politics. Her projects also involve a particular emphasis on political geography and ethnic and sectarian heterogeneity. In her projects, Tugba employs quasi-experimental statistical designs, novel data sources, and hypotheses and research designs informed by qualitative data and fieldwork. Her research has been supported by the Program on Governance and Local Development and the MIT Center for International Studies.
Tugba completed her BA in Economics at Bogaziçi University and her MA at Central European University, with a fellowship from the Open Society Foundations. Prior to coming to MIT, she worked as an EU expert in the Turkish government in the design and evaluation of various civil society, local government, and academic projects and programs. Her other field experience includes work with bureaucrats, international organizations, and immigrant communities in Turkey, Mexico, and Germany.
Papers
Publications
"Assessing Syrian Refugee Integration Using Call Detail Records from Turkey" (with Fotini Christia, Constantinos Daskalakis, Elizabeth Harwood, Christos Papadimitriou), in Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios (Salah, Pentland, Lepri, Letouze, Vinck, de Montjoye, Dong, eds.). Springer. 2019. link
"Enforcement Process Tracing: Forbearance and Dilution in Urban Colombia and Turkey," (with Alisha Holland) Studies in Comparative International Development, 1-24 (4 August 2018). link
"Policy Implications of the D4R Challenge" (with Salah et al.) in Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios (Salah, Pentland, Lepri, Letouze, Vinck, de Montjoye, Dong, eds.). Springer. Forthcoming. link
"The Geography of Gulenism in Turkey" Foreign Policy, 18 March 2019 (with Fotini Christia) link
"Turkish Referendum Rallies in Europe Made Headlines. Did they Affect Election Results?" Monkey Cage/The Washington Post, 6 May 2017 (with Fotini Christia) link
"Women and the welfare state regime of Turkey" Turkish Policy Quarterly 11(4):177-188, Winter 2013. link