Mahmut Ersin Kalaycıoğlu is a Turkish political scientist, professor of political sciences at Sabancı University and former president of

Işık University Işık University ( tr, Işık Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Istanbul, Turkey. The university is a part of the Feyziye Schools Foundation's Işık Schools, which was established by the Feyz-i Sıbyan School in the city of Sal ...

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(2004–2007). He is also a nephew of the well-known Turkish constitution professor, Tarık Zafer Tunaya. Kalaycıoğlu received his

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degree from

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, Faculty of Economics in 1973 (major Economics, minors Political Science and Statistics). He continued his education at the

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, Department of Political Science, and received his M.A. in 1975, and his Ph.D. in 1977. Kalaycıoğlu started his academic career at

, Faculty of Economics from fall 1977 through spring 1982, and at the Faculty of Political Science of the same university between fall 1982 and spring 1984. Kalaycıoğlu was employed as a full-time faculty member at

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from fall 1984 to spring 2002. As an academic, Kalaycıoğlu specializes in the study of political representation and participation. Kalaycıoğlu has contributed a chapter on Turkey in Mark Kasselman, Joel Krieger and William A. Joseph (eds.) ''Introduction to Comparative Politics'', 3rd ed., (Boston,

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: 2005). Kalaycıoğlu is currently a full-time professor of political science at Sabancı University. Present courses offered by him include: Introduction to Turkish Politics and Comparative Party Systems and Interest Groups. Kalaycıoğlu is a board member of the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, and also a member of Turkish Political Science Association, Turkish Social Science Association, International Studies Association, International Political Science Association, and Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America (MESA).

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Administrative biography at Işık University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalaycioglu, Ersin Turkish non-fiction writers Turkish political scientists Rectors of universities and colleges in Turkey Academic staff of Sabancı University Living people University of Iowa alumni Year of birth missing (living people)