Çoban, Mehmet Kerem

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Dr. Öğr. Üyesi
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Political Science and Public Administration
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Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions1
Handbook of Policy Advice1
Horizontal Intergovernmental Coordination at Local and Regional Levels: Evidence from Europe and Beyond1
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    A Coalitional Perspective on Democratic Backsliding: Elite Coalitions and the Bureaucracy in Turkey
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD, 2025) Coban, M. Kerem; Yesilkagit, Kutsal
    The rise of populism and the authoritarian shift has triggered a debate on the politics-administration nexus with a focus on the politics of democratic backsliding and the role of the bureaucracy. Recent studies have increasingly concentrated on the strategies of populist politicians to control the bureaucracy and the responses from the bureaucracy to these attempts. However, this dyadic approach to the politics-administration nexus remains limited in explaining fully the ramifications of democratic backsliding on bureaucracy. In this article, we propose a coalitional perspective on the politics of bureaucracy during the process of democratic backsliding. Illustrating the usefulness of this perspective through the Turkish context, the article highlights the role of intra-elite conflict and inter-elite competition in shaping the politics-administration nexus and explains why and how democratic backsliding has led to subordination, instrumentalization, and even deconstruction of bureaucracy in Turkey. As such, the article contributes to our understanding of the dynamics at play during the process of backsliding and the transformation of the politics-administration nexus.
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    Citation - WoS: 28
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    The Political Consequences of Dependent Financialization: Capital Flows, Crisis and the Authoritarian Turn in Turkey
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2023) Apaydin, Fulya; Coban, Mehmet Kerem
    Recent debates on financialization in emerging market economies highlight the terms of unequal exchange that they are embedded in, where international capital flows steered by powerful financial actors and transnationalized banks have a major impact on economic growth performance. As a result, many of the small open economies in the Global South have become increasingly sensitive to international market volatilities, as the post-2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) episode has shown. Yet, we know much less about the political implications of these interactions. How do unequal financial relations influence political trajectories in emerging market economies? Using process tracing and based on original evidence from Turkey, we find that when GDP growth is dependent on financial inflows under a credit-led growth model, the constraints on the domestic policy space following an economic crisis allowed the ruling party to instrumentalize monetary and regulatory institutions as financial agents of political repression.
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    Citation - WoS: 7
    Citation - Scopus: 11
    Navigating Financial Cycles: Economic Growth, Bureaucratic Autonomy, and Regulatory Governance in Emerging Markets
    (Wiley, 2024) Coban, M. Kerem; Apaydin, Fulya
    Political decisions over economic growth policies influence the degree of bureaucratic autonomy and regulatory governance dynamics. Yet, our understanding of these processes in the Global South is somewhat limited. The article studies the post-Global Financial Crisis period and relies on elite interviews and secondary sources from Turkey. It problematizes how an economic growth model dependent on foreign capital inflows, which are contingent on global financial cycles, influences the trajectory of bureaucratic autonomy. Specifically, we argue that dependence on foreign capital flows for economic growth creates an unstable macroeconomic policy environment: while the expansionary episode of the global financial cycle masks conflicts between the incumbent and bureaucracy, the contractionary episode threatens the political survival of the incumbent. In the case of Turkey, this has incentivized the ruling coalition to resort to executive aggrandizement to control monetary policy and banking regulation, which resulted in a dramatic decay of the autonomy of the regulatory agencies since 2013.
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    Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Instrumentalization of the Banking Sector in Turkey and Hungary
    (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2025) Apaydin, Fulya; Piroska, Dora; Coban, M. Kerem
    This paper studies the evolution of the domestic banking sector in Hungary and Turkey where Viktor Orban and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have intervened to politically control credit allocation. We argue that both leaders have instrumentalized the banking sector to serve their political needs rather than following a developmentalist agenda under authoritarian neoliberalism. This occurred through two distinct patterns following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis in an attempt to ensure their political survival: while Orban intervened in the banking sector to secure partisan access to consumption, Erdogan did so to ensure partisan business access to cheap credit. These policy preferences reveal additional components of an autocrat's toolkit for political survival, which are strongly influenced by the constellation of dominant social bloc interests and the relative position of their national economies within the overall global financial hierarchy.
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    Rethinking de facto autonomy? A multi-policy area approach and the regulatory policy processPalabras Clave(sic)(sic)(sic)
    (Wiley, 2022) Coban, M. Kerem
    We examine de facto autonomy across regulatory agencies and policy sectors. Yet not much is known whether, how and why de facto autonomy could vary across policy areas within the same policy sector. This article demonstrates the existence of such variation and suggests that this variation depends on the interplay between stakeholders' diverging (or overlapping) policy preferences, deficient (or superior) organizational policy capacity, and institutional arrangements leading to enabled (or constrained) de facto autonomy. Relying on elite interviews and secondary resources, this study builds on an illustrative study on bank regulation in Turkey in the post-GFC period and presents a nuanced understanding of de facto autonomy: a multi-policy area approach to de facto autonomy that allows us to examine variation in de facto autonomy across policy areas, the determinants of the variation, and whether de facto autonomy is constrained or enabled, which structures the regulatory policy process.
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    Citation - Scopus: 2
    Policy Tools and the Attributes of Effectiveness: Spaces, Mixes and Instruments
    (Taylor and Francis, 2022) Coban, M.K.; Bali, A.S.
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    The Political Economic Sources of Policy Non-Design and the Decay in Policy Capacity in Turkey
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) Coban, M.K.
    This chapter studies the political economic sources of policy design with a specific focus on the policy non-design and on the haphazard instrument choices in Turkey during the two overlapping crises: Covid-19 crisis and the currency crisis-induced economic crisis in 2018. The chapter argues that the haphazard crisis response and policy non-design was a deliberate choice of the authoritarian Turkish government, which originated from its prioritisation of higher economic growth to serve electoral and political economic constituencies. In addition, haphazard instrument choice and policy non-design caused decay in systemic and organisational policy capacity. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
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    The Unexpected Actor? Civil-Military Relations and Regulatory Agency Control in Brazil
    (Wiley, 2026) Cunha, Bruno Queiroz; Lopez, Felix G.; Coban, M. Kerem
    Democratic backsliding around the world has sparked debate about its impact on public administration and governance. This article explores a growing yet less visible phenomenon threatening democracy. It examines the influence exerted by authoritarian populists over autonomous regulatory agencies through militarized patronage, that is, the discretionary appointment of military officers to civil positions. Scholars have not fully untangled how and why contemporary populists employ militarized patronage, and much less is known about militarization of autonomous regulatory agencies. To fill this gap, we highlight enabling factors underpinning militarized patronage and draw on a unique empirical dataset that integrates military with civil service records to account for the militarization of autonomous regulatory agencies in Brazil during the far-right presidency of Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022). The article deepens our understanding of the role of civil-military relations in restructuring regulatory governance during populist rule, and the effects of democratic backsliding on regulatory governance.
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    Policy Advice and Capacity
    (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2025) Bali, Azad Singh; Coban, M. Kerem
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    Citation - WoS: 9
    Citation - Scopus: 11
    The Political Economic Sources of Policy Non-Design, Policy Accumulation, and Decay in Policy Capacity
    (Sage Publications Inc, 2023) Coban, M. Kerem
    This article problematizes the political economic drivers of policy (non-)design, instrument choice, and how prolonged non-design could trigger policy accumulation with serious implications for policy capacity. Focusing on the currency crisis-induced economic crisis in Turkey and relying on elite interviews and secondary resources, it argues that the design space, which is defined by the interactions between the credit-led growth model and the growth regime that prioritizes loose monetary and bank regulatory policies for higher economic growth rates, led to haphazard crisis response. Prolonged non-design in response to the crisis triggered policy accumulation and decay in systemic and organizational policy capacity.