Triaging Responsiveness in New States with Limited Capacity: Evidence from Turkey

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Triaging Responsiveness in New States with Limited Capacity: Evidence from Turkey

Asli Cansunar is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Nuffield College and the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She earned a PhD in Political Science and an MA in Economics from Duke University. Her research examines the long-run interaction between politics and the economy, with a focus on inequality and state-building, and her award-winning work appears in leading journals such as Journal of Politics, World Politics, and Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy.