S. U L A Ş B A Y R A K T A R Associate Professor Mersin Üniversitesi- Department of Public Administration Ciftlikkoy- 33342 Mersin-Turkey + 90 324 361 00 01/5369 ulasb@mersin.edu.tr & ulasbayraktar@gmail.com ulasbayraktar.wordpress.com ACADEMIC FORMATION Sept. 2002-Dec. 2006 Institut d Etudes Politiques de Paris PhD in Political Science With the scholarship of Turkish government. PhD thesis: Local Participatory Democracy The Local Agenda 21 Project in Turkish Cities Thesis Supervisor: Ms Nonna MAYER, research director at CNRS. Available online: http://www.academia.edu/1138267/local_participatory_democracy_the_local_agenda_ 21_Project_in_Turkish_Cities Oct. 2001- Sept. 2002 Institut d Etudes Politiques de Paris MA in Political Sociology With the scholarship of French government. Master thesis: Structural challenges of making social capital work: A study of democracy in Turkey Thesis Supervisor: Ms Nonna MAYER, research director at CNRS. 1995-2001 University of Galatasaray, Istanbul Undergraduate degree in the Department of Public Administration and Political Science Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences 1986.1993 Tarsus American College, Mersin High school degree
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Since June 2011 Associate Professor University of Mersin, Mersin 2007-2011 University of Mersin, Mersin Assistant Professor September 2002- Mars 2003 Fondation pour le Progrès de l Homme, Paris Capitalization team member during the sabbatical year of the Foundation Capitalization of peace-building projects financed by the Foundation in the Balkans; Study trips in Albania and Switzerland to interview project partners; Redaction of a final report consisting of evaluations and proposals about the examined project experiences. July 2000- July 2001 Sabancı University, Istanbul Assistant coordinator of Civic Awareness Projects Co-ordination of student projects designed to improve their civic awareness; Contacting NGO s in order to establish relations in the framework of Civic Awareness Projects; Facilitation of projects office tasks. July 1999 February 2000 Union of Municipalities of the Marmara Region, Istanbul Coordinator of International Relations (voluntary) Initiating, maintaining and improving Union s international relations; Facilitating Union s international projects; Providing office support. December 1999- February 2000 Union of Municipalities of Netherlands, Istanbul Local Project Officer Logistic support for the project of Strengthening local democracy in the Marmara Region [Turkey] hit by the earthquake on August 17 th, 1999 ; Organization of meetings between Dutch mayors and local actors and of field visits to the region; Providing data and recent information about the region for the project reports. September 1998 February 1999 Youth for Habitat International Network Local Agenda 21 Youth Coordinator (voluntary) Establishment of youth councils in the cities that participate to Local Agenda 21 Program (IULA-EMME and UNDP); Organization of youth meetings about sustainable development, youth participation, capacity building etc, 1996-1998 (during summers) Various Tourism Agencies Mountain Guide
PUBLICATIONS 2014,"Decentralisation, poly-centralisation and re-centralisation of Turkish politics: A matrix of central-local relationships", Göymen ve Sazak (ed.), Centralisation Decentralisation Debate Revisited, IPM & FNS yay., İstanbul, ss.321-346. 2014, "Bir Simbiyoz Olarak Türkiye'de Merkez-Yerel İlişkileri [Central-local relationships as a symbiosis in Turkey" içinde Aliyar Demirci, İsmet Parlak, Nigar Değirmenci (der.),siyaset Bilimi Araştırmaları: Teori ve Türkiye Uygulamaları,Ankara: Seçkin yay., s. 277-298 (Turkish). 2014, "Kamuyu Kamulaştıran Yerel Yönetimler [Local governments that publicise the public]" Yeni Toplumcu Belediyecilik Sempozyumu, 14-15 Eylül 2013, Çankaya Belediyesi yay., Ankara, ss. 53-59 (Turkish). 2013, "Özgün Bir Siyasal Bilimi Ekolü Geliştirmek Adına Bir İlham Kaynağı Olarak Fransız Kamu Politikası Analizi Yazını [French Public Policy Analysis Literature as a source of inspiration for developing an original school of political science]" Yıldız ve Sobacı (ed.) Kamu Politikası Kuram ve Uygulama, Adres yay.,ankara, ss. 114-129 (Turkish). (2013), "Yerel Yönetimlerde Etkinlik-Demokrasi Diyalektiğini Aşmaya Yönelik Bir Model Önerisi: Birlikler, Komisyonlar ve Mahalleler [A model proposition for going beyond the dialectics of performance and democracy in local governments: Unions, comissions and neighborhoods", Bulut, Yakup ve ark. (ed.), Kuramdan Uygulamaya Yerel Yönetimler ve Kentsel Politikalar, Pegem Akademi, Ankara, ss. 230-234 (Turkish). 2012, with Cemal Altan Explaining Turkish Party Centralism: Traditions and Trends in the Exclusion of Local Party Offices in Mersin and beyond in Élise Massicard ve Nicole Watts (ed.) Negotiating Political Power in Turkey: Breaking up the Party, Oxford: Routledge, s.17-36 (English). 2012, with Elise Massicard, Decentralisation in Turkey, Focales, AFD, Paris (English), available online: http://www.afd.fr/webdav/site/afd/shared/publications/recherche/scientifiq ues/focales/07-va-focales.pdf 2012, with Cemil Yıldızcan, "Dönüşüm Aktörü Olarak Valiler [Prefects as the agent of transformation]", Parlak (ed.), Kamu Politikalarında Dönüşüm, TODAİE, Ankara, ss. 87-114 (Turkish). 2012, Kentsel Dönüşümün Görsel Sosyolojisi [Virtual Sociology of Urban Transformation], ODA, no: 38-39 (Turkish). 2011, with Massicard, E., Décentralisation en Turquie, Focales-7, ADF, Paris (French), available online: http://www.afd.fr/webdav/site/afd/shared/publications/recherche/scientifiq ues/focales/07-focales.pdf 2011, Yerelin Seçimi, çözümlemenin yereli: Mersin Örneği [An infra-local analysis of local elections: The case of Mersin], Toplum ve Bilim, 121, s. 9-47. (Turkish) (2011) "Local leadership as a personal characteristic: A comparison of two Turkish mayors" EUL Journal of Social Sciences, (2:1), s. 22-54.
2010, with Hacı Kurt and Bediz Yılmaz Unacquainted Institution of Local Politics: Provincial Council of Mersin in Public Opinion, Çağdaş Yerel Yönetimler, v.19, n.2, ss. 29-62, (Turkish). 2010, with Hacı Kurt "The Politicisation of a Turkish Provincial Council in the postreform period, A.Ü.S.B.F. Dergisi, c.65/1, (Turkish). 2009, with Hacı Kurt "Provincial Councils: Legislation and action", Memleket Mevzuat, c.5, s. 50, s.15-21, (Turkish). 2009, Provincial Councils and Expansion of Local Politics towards the Rural: First Observations on Mersin, Planlama, n.3-4, s. 83-91 (Turkish). 2009, with Mehmet Pempecioğlu, "Local leadership, social municipalism and Ali Dinçer" in Kamalak ve Gül (eds.), Social Municipalism, Kalkedon-Sodev yay., İstanbul, s. 159-196, (Turkish). 2009, Yerel Yönetimler 'for rent' [Local Governments for rent], Express, n. 2009/04, 6-7 (Turkish). 2008, with M. Penpecioglu, 1977-1980 Arası Ankara Belediyesi Ali Dinçer Dönemi [The mayoralty of Ali Dinçer in Ankara between 1977 and 1980] Mülkiye, v.32, n. 261, 55-88 (Turkish). 2008, Participatory Politics: Innovations and Challenges for the Turkish Left, Toplum ve Demokrasi, 2(2), pp. 57-74 (English). 2008, with H. Kurt et al. İl Genel Meclisleri: Fransa- Türkiye Karşılaştırmasının ilk bulguları [Provincial Councils: The preliminary findings of French- Turkish comparison], in 1. Ulusal Yerel Yönetimler Sempozyumu Bildiriler Kitabı, Sakarya Üniversitesi, Sakarya, pp. 295-308 (Turkish). 2007, 'Turkish municipalities: Reconsidering local democracy beyond administrative autonomy' [Türk belediyeleri: Yerel demokrasiyi idari özerkliğin ötesinde kurgulamak], European Journal of Turkish Studies, Articles, Articles, URL : http://www.ejts.org/document1103.html (English). 2007, New participatory practices and public administration: A neo-liberal trap or a democratic opening? in Ş.Aksoy and Y.Üstüner (eds.), Public Administration : Methodology and problems, Nobel Yay. Ankara, ss. 459-474, (Turkish). 2007, A global-down-up initiative against the centres of the periphery : Impact and limits of the new participatory mechanisms in Turkey in Pascal Delwit et. al. (ed.), Towards DIY-Politics : Participatory and Direct Democracy at the Local Level in Europe, Vanden Broele Publishers, Brugge, pp. 213-238 (English). 2005, "Ankara et la global-down-up décentralisation, ADELS Territoires: La revue de la démocratie locale, n 460, p. 14 (French), available online: http://www.adels.org/territoires/460.htm#j 2005, "Which civil society, what kind of democracy? Civil society(ies) in the Turkey of 90s, Sivil Toplum (Journal of Civil Society), v.3, n 9, pp. 9-24 (Turkish). 2003, Secularization, democratization and Muslim world: Process of change (conference report) with A. Caglar AKGUNGOR, CEMOTI (Cahiers d études sur la Méditerranée orientale et le monde turco-iranien), n 35, January- June 2003, pp.253-293. (French)
2003, Associations based on regional appurtenances in Istanbul: New instruments of political clientelism, Toplumbilim (Trimonthly magazine on sociological studies) (Turkish), n 17, pp. 107-118 (Turkish). 2001, Ivan Illich s utopia, Virgül (Monthly book review), n 40, pp. 20-23 (Turkish). SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS (2008-2010), YILMAZ-BAYRAKTAR, B., KURT, H., KAMALAK, İ, Mersin Örneğinde İl Genel Meclisi: Üyeler, İşlevler ve Değişim Süreci, TÜBİTAK Kariyer Programı projesi No:107K518. (2014-2016), "70 yıl sonra Erdemli: Küçük Yerleşim Yerlerinde Sosyo-Ekonomik Değişim ve Siyasal Hayat" TÜBİTAK 1001 Araştırma Projesi- Yürütücü MEMBERSHIPS Turkish Member of the Congress Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government of the Council of Europe Member of the Executive Committee of the Citizens' Council of Mezitli Member of Turkish Social Sciences Association Member of the Sportive Club of Mersin University LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES Turkish: native speaker English: advanced French: advanced