Julinda Hoxha

Bilkent University, Political Science, Post-Doc

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Türk sağlık sektöründe politika ağları: kapasite, kurumsallaşma ve etki

Cataloged from PDF version of article.Thesis (Ph.D.): Bilkent University, Department of Political... more Cataloged from PDF version of article.Thesis (Ph.D.): Bilkent University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2017.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-221).Policy networks refer to platforms that facilitate collaboration among public, private and voluntary actors with the purpose of public policy making. Despite the extensive research done on the issue, not much is known about the applicability of this concept outside the context of advanced democracies. The purpose of this thesis is to assess the theoretical significance and practical effectiveness of three policy networks within the health sector in Turkey – a crucial case study where conditions for network collaboration are least favorable considering its past record of centralized policy making. Content analysis of 24 semi-structured interview transcripts reveals that networks are relevant policy instruments that have an impact on policy making. Integrated ne...

Expanding the boundaries of the local: Entrepreneurial municipalism and migration governance in Turkey

New Perspectives on Turkey

This study investigates why and how entrepreneurial municipalism is manifested in the case of Tur... more This study investigates why and how entrepreneurial municipalism is manifested in the case of Turkey despite limited local government autonomy and capacity in the area of migration governance. This article suggests four entrepreneurial strategies to understand and explain the variation in municipal practices: local networking, community engagement, organizational adaptation, and city branding. The most common strategies adopted by municipalities are local networking and community engagement often based on external funding alternatives that bring rapid and locally contingent, yet less durable and future-oriented solutions to challenges of forced displacement in urban settings. Against this background, this article highlights the importance of pathways that cultivate a culture of diversity and inclusion in the context of sustainable local integration by investing more resources in organizational adaptation and city branding. Finally, this study suggests redefining the concept of munic...

Becoming Collaborative: Policy Networks within the Turkish Health Sector in Turkey

Network Policy Making within the Turkish Health Sector: Becoming Collaborative

This chapter examines factors that maximize collaboration among various stakeholders with the pur... more This chapter examines factors that maximize collaboration among various stakeholders with the purpose of health policy making in Turkey. The field research reveals that policy networks have been formed in the sub-areas of public health, healthcare construction, and health tourism in the years between 2011 and 2015. Content analysis of 24 semi-structured interviews with policy and professional experts is conducted to assess Network Collaborative Capacity, built upon three dimensions, namely, structural, relational, and institutional. The findings reveal that networks differ in their capacity to collaborate as well as their impact on policy making resulting in three distinct models of network policy making. In the cases under investigation, network impact takes the form of (a) policy innovation through expertise sharing and evidence-based policy making associated with particularly high levels of relational capacity; (b) policy effectiveness through contract enforcement within a clear legal framework associated with particularly high levels of institutional capacity; and (c) policy coherence through organizational-knowledge-sharing and actor coordination. Findings also suggest that institutionalization in the form of network embeddedness in the surrounding political and economic environment is crucial for maintaining a collaborative momentum as well as achieving policy effectiveness at the stage of policy implementation. Based on these findings, further studies should focus on the institutionalization of policy networks, particularly in those middle-income countries such as Turkey that aim and often fail to address various policy challenges through short-lived practices of multi-stakeholder action. Finally, this study emphasizes the importance of incorporating neo-institutional approaches to network analysis.

Does social cohesion solve forced migration riddles? Troubled concepts and constrained practices in Turkey

Migration Studies

Amid the epistemic divide about what social cohesion means as a foundational concept, the pursuit... more Amid the epistemic divide about what social cohesion means as a foundational concept, the pursuit of social integration as a policy objective is more desirable than ever among policy makers. While scholarly debates seek to restore conceptual clarity for social cohesion and social integration separately, referring to them interchangeably in policy reports seems to go conveniently unnoticed across different migration contexts. This study seeks answers to the question: how does the concept of social cohesion manifest itself in forced migration contexts? It does so by first reviewing the state of the art on social cohesion-forced migration nexus to identify the recurring themes and substitute concepts in the literature. Secondly, based on an in-depth textual analysis of 327 scholarly articles and policy reports on the forcibly displaced theme in Turkey published between 2011 and 2018, this study presents a classification of conceptual frames on social cohesion in forced migration contex...

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Tracing Origins: The Context of Network Formation in a Least Likely Policy Environment

Network Policy Making within the Turkish Health Sector: Becoming Collaborative, 2020

This chapter investigates the origins of cross-sectoral collaboration by exploring when and why p... more This chapter investigates the origins of cross-sectoral collaboration by exploring when and why policy networks form within the Turkish health sector – a least likely case for network formation. The analysis presented here draws on information collected from a number of official documents, semi-structured interviews with professional experts, and two multi-stakeholder meetings. Timewise, networks entered the policy jargon during the introduction of the Health Transformation Program in 2003. Yet, the years between 2011 and 2015 were ground-breaking in producing concrete cross-sectoral collaborative instruments of policy making. The findings of the analysis reveal that policy networks form as a result of central government’s choice to devolve responsibility and expand the policy space with new issues and actors. Moreover, policy networks emerge not only during the times of policy change which has a reactionary, abrupt, and nature but also during the times of policy stability and legitimacy. These contextual factors are crucial in maintaining an atmosphere of trust among stakeholders, particularly between state and non-state actors. The refugee crisis and spreading securitization discourse in the post-2015 period explain the shifting policy and political agenda leading to public sector retrenchment from cross-sectoral projects within the field of health. This chapter intends to contribute to the literature of comparative public policy by examining the link between policy networks and policy change in addition to adding to the debates on network governance by exploring the processes of network formation. Finally, this chapter contributes to Turkish studies by examining the process of network formation within the Turkish health sector.

Introduction: Extending the Study of Policy Networks Beyond Their Original Context

Network Policy Making within the Turkish Health Sector: Becoming Collaborative, 2020

This book is aimed at extending the study of network collaboration beyond the context of advanced... more This book is aimed at extending the study of network collaboration beyond the context of advanced democracies through the exploration of policy networks in Turkey – a country with statist policy style and authoritarian political culture. The focus here will be on cross-sectoral collaboration taking place within the Turkish health sector – a policy area that has been steadily improving with the initiation of the Health Transformation Programme (HTP) in 2003. To date, many scholars have studied the outcomes of the HTP reforms on the healthcare system including indicators such as healthcare access, health insurance coverage and healthcare services. However, despite the transformative nature of the program, a limited number of studies have assessed the impact of HTP reforms on changing policy and governance patterns in Turkey. Considering this gap in the literature, the aim of this book is to empirically examine the context, capacity and consequences of cross-sectoral collaboration within the health sector in Turkey through a micro- and meso-level investigation of policy networks developed in the sub-areas of public health, medical industry, and health tourism covering the years between 2011 and 2015. Furthermore, this book provides an account of those factors that impede cross-sectoral arrangements from turning into venues of policy collaboration. Such juxtaposition is designed to enhance the understanding of policy networks as conceptual devices and practical tools of collaboration in public policy.

Conclusion: Leveraging Networks to Achieve Policy Collaboration

Network Policy Making within the Turkish Health Sector: Becoming Collaborative, 2020

This study is an attempt to (a) introduce Turkey as a country case with statist policy tradition ... more This study is an attempt to (a) introduce Turkey as a country case with statist policy tradition and authoritarian political culture, yet, a growing importance of cross-sectoral collaboration in various policy areas, as an opportunity to conduct network research beyond advanced democracies (Chapter 1); (b) develop an integrated framework for the study of policy networks across country cases and policy settings at the sub-national level through the utilization of Network Collaborative Capacity Index (Chapter 2); (c) trace the contextual conditions that led to the formation of policy networks within the health sector from 2011 to 2015 in Turkey (Chapter 3); (d) examine those mechanisms that maximize collaboration along the structural, relational, and institutional dimensions of networks (Chapter 4); and (d) assess the cultural and structural impediments that inhibit cross-sectoral arrangements from becoming collaborative and influencing policy processes and outcomes (Chapter 5). This concluding chapter focuses on the theoretical significance as well as the practical effectiveness of the policy networks under consideration in an attempt to link the local practice of network collaboration with more general theories of governance.

Review for "Onward Migration Aspirations and Transnational Practices of Migrant Construction Workers Amidst Economic Crisis: Exploring New Opportunities and Facing Barriers

Setting the Stage: An Integrated Framework for Assessing Network Collaboration Across Country Cases

This chapter provides a comprehensive, yet, concise overview of the existing debates on policy ne... more This chapter provides a comprehensive, yet, concise overview of the existing debates on policy networks. The aim of the chapter is to identify those mechanisms that encourage network collaboration among several stakeholders with different motivations, interests, and preferences throughout different stages of policy making from agenda setting to policy evaluation. A systematic review of previous studies on policy networks across various countries highlights the achievements and missing links in the literature, and at the same time, reveals three sets of causal mechanisms, which are crucial to understand Network Collaborative Capacity (NCC) along the structural, relational, and institutional dimensions. Structural and relational mechanisms explain the internal dynamics of a policy network; whereas institutional mechanisms consist of all those external factors in the broader political and economic environment within which the network is embedded. Structural, relational, and institution...

Practicing Social Cohesion in the Dark: Diverse Processes and Missing Indicators in Forced Migration Contexts

Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2020

Despite the large number of studies on social cohesion, research carried out in non-European, ref... more Despite the large number of studies on social cohesion, research carried out in non-European, refugee and local contexts remains limited. This article provides a structured, focused comparison of social cohesion practices in new refugee hosting settings based on examples from Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. The analysis reveals that social cohesion vision is implemented through peacebuilding, community engagement, and resilience building practices that aim at building safe, shared and empowered spaces, respectively. In contrast to national policies with more immediate, tangible and standardized outcomes, local practices involve intercommunal, interactional, and future-oriented processes, which complicates the assessment of social cohesion through an indicator framework. Based on the findings, the article suggests (a) acknowledging context bound manifestations of social cohesion practices, (b) emphasizing social interactions at the local level as a crucial component of social cohesion processes, and (c) advancing research on the causal mechanisms of social cohesion as a long-term policy goal.

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Tackling the Root Causes: Inherited Structural and Cultural Barriers to Policy Collaboration in Turkey

While Chapter 3 highlights contextual conditions that foster the formation of policy networks, Ch... more While Chapter 3 highlights contextual conditions that foster the formation of policy networks, Chapter 5 highlights contextual conditions that impede the formation of policy networks. The overarching question of this chapter is the following: What are the factors that hinder cross-sectoral arrangements from becoming collaborative in complex policy settings such as low- and middle-income countries with a tradition in centralized policy making? In an attempt to address this question, this study provides a detailed assessment of all cross-sectoral arrangements within the Turkish health sector focusing on the post-2003 period. Within this framework, three types of networks will be examined including (a) consultative networks where stakeholders come together primarily to legitimize certain government policies within national level health policy platforms; (b) cluster networks where stakeholder interaction falls short of becoming collaborative due to diverging interests and persistent com...

Toplumsal Bütünleşme ile Yerleşke Dönüşümü İlişkisi: Türkiye’ye Zorunlu Göçle Gelenler ve Barınma Deneyimi

Ankara Üniversitesi SBF Dergisi, 2020

Karma nitelikli uluslararası göç ile hareket eden kişilerin kentsel alanlarda yaşamayı tercih etm... more Karma nitelikli uluslararası göç ile hareket eden kişilerin kentsel alanlarda yaşamayı tercih etmesi, barınma deneyimleri açısından kentlerde farklı sorunların ortaya çıkmasına neden olmaktadır. 2011 yılından itibaren yoğun bir şekilde Suriye'den zorunlu göçle Türkiye'ye gelen kişilerin kentlerdeki varlığı, bu kişilerin barınma deneyimlerinin Türkiye özelinde incelenmesi gerekliliğini belirginleştirmiştir. Özellikle bu deneyimlerinin toplumsal bütünleşme ve sosyal uyum süreçlerine etkisine ilişkin çalışma ve uygulamaların bilimsel olarak değerlendirilmesinin önemi giderek artmıştır. Bu öneme karşın, Türkiye'de bu konuya ilişkin çalışmaların sayısı oldukça azdır. Bu çalışma, Türkiye'ye zorunlu göçle gelenlerin barınma deneyimleri ile toplumsal bütünleşme ve sosyal uyum süreçleri arasındaki ilişkiyi inceleyerek, bilimsel çalışmalardaki söz konusu eksikliği gidermeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaçla, ilgili ulusal ve uluslararası yazın incelenerek birey merkezli bakış açısıyla konutun, toplumsal bütünleşme ve sosyal uyum bağlamında anlamı ve etkisi, özgün bir biçimde fiziksel, sosyo-psikolojik ve mekânsal boyut olmak üzere üç boyutla sınıflandırılmıştır. Türkiye'deki zorunlu göçle gelenlerin barınma deneyimini anlayabilmek ve açıklayabilmek için mekânsal ve sosyopsikolojik boyutlara ilişkin çalışmaların artması gerektiği tespit edilmiştir.

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Network Policy Making within the Turkish Health Sector: Becoming Collaborative

Network Policy Making within the Turkish Health Sector: Becoming Collaborative, 2020

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or ... more No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without either the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence permitting restricted copying issued in the UK by The Copyright Licensing Agency and in the USA by The Copyright Clearance Center. Any opinions expressed in the chapters are those of the authors. Whilst Emerald makes every effort to ensure the quality and accuracy of its content, Emerald makes no representation implied or otherwise, as to the chapters' suitability and application and disclaims any warranties, express or implied, to their use.

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Competition and Cohesion in a Party Dominant Legislature: A Case Study on the Turkish Assembly

This thesis explores two main aspects of legislative behavior: dimensions of conflicts and party ... more This thesis explores two main aspects of legislative behavior: dimensions of conflicts and party unity. Methods used consist of a non-parametric spatial scaling method developed by Poole (Optimal Classification, 2000) and summary statistics on voting unity developed by Carey (2007, 2009). The empirical analysis of roll-call vote, covering years from two legislative periods (2003-2009) suggests two main findings. First, current assumptions about multi-dimensionality of competition highlighting the secular-religious conflict in Turkish politics are untenable. Policy space in the Turkish Assembly reflects the government-opposition dimension of conflict common to advanced industrialized democracies. Second, contrary to formal institutional studies predictions, parties in the Turkish Assembly are not cohesive blocs of legislators that share the same preferences. Individual voting dissent, party-switching and intra-party factions are common phenomena among parties in Turkey. Therefore, pa...

Review of “Everyday Spirituality: Social and Spatial Worlds of Enchantment” by Sarah MacKian

Cultural Sociology

Modern non-religious spirituality is a subject of immense complexity, which has attracted much at... more Modern non-religious spirituality is a subject of immense complexity, which has attracted much attention and sparked lots of debate among scholars during the last two decades. MacKian’s new book, Everyday Spirituality, explores this widely disputed territory, appealing to scholars interested in an empirical analysis of spirituality as well as all those individuals who simply find themselves on a spiritual quest while trying to give meaning to their daily lives.

The Integrity of Governance: What It Is, What We Know, What is Done, and Where to Go

Public Administration, 2015

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Conditional Deliberation: The Case of Joint Parliamentary Committees in the EU

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014

Deliberation, as a mode of interaction based on the logic of reason-giving argumentation, is a co... more Deliberation, as a mode of interaction based on the logic of reason-giving argumentation, is a core feature of the European Union institutions. Yet only few studies have explored the conditions that make deliberation possible in practice. This study examines the institutional determinants of deliberation within joint parliamentary committees (JPCs)-longstanding instruments of EU enlargement policy. The empirical analysis reveals a dynamic relationship between 'deliberation' and 'debate' as extreme modes of interaction that co-exist within the same setting. It also suggests that deliberation is a product of participants' constant efforts to maintain equal power relations and low issue-area sensitivity. This study provides new evidence on deliberative politics at the EU level. In addition, it highlights the role of inter-parliamentary deliberation as a catalyst for political cooperation and policy coordination , at a time of intensifying enlargement fatigue and growing Euroscepticism both at home and abroad. * The authors are grateful to two anonymous referees for their useful comments, and Banu Demir Pakel, Cavit Pakel, Tolga Bolukbasi, Zeki Sarıgil for their helpful suggestions on the earlier versions of the article.

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Book Review: Everyday Spirituality: Social and Spatial Worlds of Enchantment

Cultural Sociology, 2014

traditional values, create new meaning, shape new consensual codes, and experiment with life and ... more traditional values, create new meaning, shape new consensual codes, and experiment with life and its possibilities’ (p. 93). However the conceptual leap from the contradictory manner by which people engage with the practices and rituals of reinvention to subversive acts of experimentation may be a bit of a stretch. The question worth posing is: are traditional values subverted by the ceaseless attempt to escape from the past? It could be argued that the project of starting afresh and inventing a self that is unbounded by the moral norms and restraints of the past represents an evasion of engaging with those values. When the possibility of a new year zero is always around the corner, individuals and communities may well become distracted from engaging with the problems of their time. Elliott is to be praised for turning a question frequently trivialized by media commentators and critics into one that constitutes a serious subject for cultural sociology. The challenge we face is to elaborate a mediated theory of the workings of reinvention practices at both an institutional and individual level.

Book review: Islamism, democracy and liberalism in Turkey: The case of the AKP

Party Politics, 2011

ABSTRACT Islamism, Democracy and Liberalism in Turkey: The Case of the AKP is an important contri... more ABSTRACT Islamism, Democracy and Liberalism in Turkey: The Case of the AKP is an important contribution to the growing literature on the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP) in Turkey. As the title indicates, the significance of the AKP as a case study of party politics is that it sheds light on the interplay of the currently salient themes of Islamism, democracy and liberalism.