Browsing by Author "Sekercioglu, Eser"

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Citation - WoS: 15
Citation - Scopus: 16
Authoritarian Predispositions and Attitudes Towards Redistribution
(Wiley, 2019) Arikan, Gizem; Sekercioglu, Eser
Authoritarian predispositions are associated with a preference for order, certainty, and security. Using data from European Social Surveys (ESS), we show that this association extends to attitudes towards redistributive policies. We demonstrate that support for redistributive policies that emphasize the government's responsibility to provide old age, health, and unemployment benefits are positively associated with authoritarian predispositions. We also provide evidence that perceived economic threats moderate this relationship such that, for individuals who perceive higher levels of economic threat, the relationship between authoritarian predispositions and support for government responsibility is stronger. These results show that authoritarian predispositions are not only associated with social preferences but also attitudes towards economic policies.
Citation - WoS: 22
Citation - Scopus: 29
Political Agency of News Outlets in a Polarized Media System: Framing the Corruption Probe in Turkey
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2016) Panayirci, Ugur Cevdet; Iseri, Emre; Sekercioglu, Eser
This article aims to determine the stances of media outlets during crises in a polarized media system such as Turkey. Adopting a content analysis methodology, this article analyses the framing strategies of three national newspapers affiliated with certain sociopolitical camps (namely, the pro-government Sabah, the anti-government Kemalist Sozcu and the pro-Gulen Zaman) to observe possible similarities/differences during the critical 17 December corruption probe. The findings not only confirm earlier studies on press-party' parallelism but also reveal press-sociopolitical camp parallelism' in Turkey's polarized media system.
Citation - WoS: 25
Citation - Scopus: 29
Public Confidence in the Judiciary: the Interaction Between Political Awareness and Level of Democracy
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016) Aydin Cakir, Aylin; Sekercioglu, Eser
Apart from the studies that focus on public attitudes toward higher courts in advanced democracies, we know little about the factors that can explain public confidence in the judiciary in a comparative setting. In this regard, the goal of this study is to explain whether, and to what extent, the country's level of democracy moderates the impact of political awareness on public confidence in the judiciary. This study uses hierarchical linear models to analyse the interaction between individual and country level factors by using the World Values Survey (2005-2009) data for 49 countries and various other data sources. Our empirical results show that in advanced democracies political awareness variables like education and political participation have a positive impact on public confidence in the judiciary, whereas in countries with weak levels of democracy higher political awareness leads to increased cynicism about the judiciary. These results suggest that a one-size-fits-all approach to explain confidence in the judiciary is not possible when we are dealing with a wide range of societies that vary in terms of many characteristics, both institutional and cultural.
Citation - WoS: 9
The Sphere of Consensus in a Polarized Media System: The Case of Turkey During the Catastrophic Coup Attempt
(Usc Annenberg Press, 2019) Iseri, Emre; Sekercioglu, Eser; Panayirci, Ugur Cevdet
How does a highly polarized media system respond to a catastrophic event? The July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey provides fertile ground to examine how a catastrophic event has shaped the editorial policies of news media outlets in a highly polarized media system. This article hypothesizes that, mainly due to the peculiarities of the Turkish media system, even at the time of a catastrophic event, the framing strategies of media outlets converge only to a limited degree on a sphere of consensus. Adopting a content analysis methodology, we analyze the framing strategies of four national newspapers affiliated with specific sociopolitical camps (the pro-government Sabah, the moderate Hurriyet, and the oppositional Sozcu and Cumhuriyet). We reach the counterintuitive conclusion that these news outlets used different framing strategies in the immediate aftermath of the coup attempt and that the gap between them widened over the period of analysis.