Erdem Yörük

Overview

Erdem Yörük received his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University in 2012. He is the Director of the Center for Computational Social Sciences at Koç University. He is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Koç University; an Associate Member in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford, an affiliated faculty at Ford Institute of Human Security at Pittsburgh University and the Central European University. He has served as the principal investigator of the ERC-funded project “Emerging Welfare” (The New Politics of Welfare: Towards an “Emerging Markets” Welfare State Regime) (emw.ku.edu.tr), the H2020 project Social Comquant (socialcomquant.ku.edu.tr) and the ERC-funded Politus Project. These projects have focused on computational social science methods to understand social behavior and social policy. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Ford Foundation, European Commission FP7 Marie Curie CIG, European Research Council, H2020, the Science Academy of Turkey and Tübitak. His projects have created two datasets on welfare (glow.ku.edu.tr) and protest movements (glocon.ku.edu.tr). His articles have appeared in World Development, Governance, Politics & Society, Journal of European Social Policy, New Left Review, Current Sociology, South Atlantic Quarterly, American Behavioral Scientist, International Journal of Communication, Social Policy and Administration, and Social Indicators Research, among others. His book, The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey was published by the University of Michigan Press in May 2022 and its Turkish translation by İletişim Yayınları. He is the co-founder of AI start-up Politus Analytics

Research areas

Social Welfare and Social Policy , Social Movements , Political Sociology and Computational Social Sciences

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