Saadet Konak Unal

Biography

Saadet Konak Unal is a Lecturer of Political Science. Prior to joining Stony Brook, she was a Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Houston. She received her PhD in Political science from the University of Houston. She specializes in Comparative politics and Methodology, with expertise in Turkish Politics. She has taught classes on Comparative Politics, International Relations, Quantitative Methods, American Government and Democratization.

Research

Her research areas are gender, political representation, identity politics, and legislative behavior. Her work primarily focuses on the political issues related to multiple social identities and representation in a comparative context, looking across different country settings where conventional models of representation do not apply. Specifically, her research examines the role those social identities such as gender, religion and ethnicity, play in both local and national politics in Turkey. Her work has been published in the Journal of Legislative Studies and Turkish Studies.

Publications

Eduardo Aleman and Saadet Konak Unal. 2023 “Penalizing Women MPs: The Approval of Women-Initiated Bills in the Turkish Parliament.’’ The Journal of Legislative Studies DOI: 10.1080/13572334.2023.2195142

Saadet Konak Unal. 2020 “The Role of Gender in Turkish Parliamentary Debates.” Turkish Studies 00 (0):1-28

Melissa Marschall and Saadet Konak Unal. “Media Bias, Kurdish Repression, and the Dismantling of Local Democracy in Turkey.’’ The Program on Governance and Local Development, No.39 2021

Melissa Marschall, Marwa Shalaby, and Saadet Konak Unal. “Municipal Service Delivery, Identity Politics and Islamist Parties in Turkey’’, at POMEPS Studies Series, Local Politics and Islamist Movements 2017

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