Dr.
Berfin Çakın
Affiliated Researcher
Berfin Çakın is an Affiliated Researcher and a former Ernst Mach Fellow. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy, working on the EU-funded project REVOLTS, which examines the long-term impacts of protests on democracy. She has published numerous works on political polarization, gender equality attitudes, and civil society. She earned her MA in Public Administration from the University of Twente in 2017 and her PhD in Political Psychology from Istanbul Medeniyet University in 2022. Her PhD thesis explored gendered ontological insecurities in Turkey and Malaysia, and her paper derived from her doctoral thesis received the Best Conference Paper award from the Council for European Studies, Gender and Sexuality Network.
Vita
- PhD, Political Science (Political Psychology specialization), Istanbul Medeniyet University, 2022
- MA, Public Administration, University of Twente, 2017
- BA, International Relations, Sakarya University, 2013
Professional Positions
- Ernst Mach Fellow, Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Austria, 2023-
- IMSISS-CES Visiting Fellow, University of Trento, Italy, 2023
- Visiting Fellow, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 2021-2022
Publications
- Taşkın, Burcu and Çakın, Berfin (2022). The Government’s Symbiotic Relations with Interest Groups and CSOs in Turkey: Pluralist or Corporatist Arrangements? – Journal of Civil Society – https://doi.org/10.1080/17448689.2022.2125418
- Taşkın, Burcu; Çakın, Berfin (2022). Selecting Social Partners: Collective Bargaining for Gender Equality in the Shadow of Political Polarisation and Ideology in Turkey. In: Social Partners and Gender Equality. Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, pp. 271-296. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81178-5_12
- Taşkın, Burcu and Çakın, Berfin (2022). Impact of the Nationwide Electoral Thresholds on Party System Fragmentation and Disproportional Representation in Greece and Turkey – Journal of Balkan Research Institute – https://doi.org/10.30903/Balkan.1134203
- Çakın, Berfin (2022). Women and Gender in the Qur’an. Journal of Gender Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2022.2159111
- Çakın, Berfin (2022). Ethnicity and Party Politics in Turkey, The Rise of the Kurdish Party during the Kurdish Opening Process – Party Politics, Sage Journals, https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688221092898
- Çakın, Berfin (2022). Turkey’s Electoral Geography: Trends, Behaviors and Identities. Insight Turkey. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48655662
- Çakın, Berfin (2022). The Psychology of Democracy – Democratization Journal, Taylor & Francis, https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2021.1997992
- Çakın, Berfin (2021). The Psychology of Political Polarization – Politics and the Life Sciences, Cambridge, https://doi.org/10.1017/pls.2021.32
- Çakın, Berfin (2021). The Genetics of Political Behaviour: How Evolutionary Psychology Explains Ideology – Political Studies Review, Sage Journals, https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299211001241