Publications
Adiguzel, Fatih Serkant, Asli Cansunar, and Gozde Corekcioglu. 2020. “Truth or Dare? Detecting Systematic Manipulation of COVID-19 Statistics.” Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 1 (4): 543–57. (Featured on Independent Türkçe)
Cansunar, Asli. 2021. “Who Is High Income, Anyway? Social Comparison, Subjective Group Identification, and Preferences over Progressive Taxation.” Journal of Politics 83 (4): 1292–1306. ( Featured on BBC Brasil (in Portuguese), Political Economy Forum Podcast, Zihni Politik (in Turkish).)
Ansell, Ben, Asli Cansunar, and Mads Andreas Elkjaer. 2021. “Social Distancing, Politics and Wealth.” West European Politics 44 (5–6): 1283–1313.
Bozcaga, Tugba and Asli Cansunar. 2021. "The Unintended Consequences of Nation-Making Institutions for Civil Society Development" Journal of Historical Political Economy: Vol. 1: No. 4, pp 591-613.
Cansunar, Asli. "Distributional Consequences of Philanthropic Contributions to Public Goods: Self-Serving Elite in Ottoman Istanbul." Journal of Politics: 84.2 (2022): 889-907.
2023 APSA MENA Politics Section Best Article Award
Ansell, Ben, and Asli Cansunar. "The Political Consequences of Housing (Un)affordability." Journal of European Social Policy 31.5 (2021): 597-613.
Adiguzel, Serkant, Asli Cansunar, and Gozde Corekcioglu. 2021, “Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Proximity to Health Care and Electoral Outcomes”. Journal of Politics, Forthcoming. (Featured on LSE Middle East webinar on the politics of health care provision.)
Asli Cansunar and Nela Mrchkovska (2024), "Beyond the Classroom? Primary Schools and Rural Civic Participation", Journal of Historical Political Economy: Vol. 3: No. 4, pp 501-525.
Beramendi, Pablo, Asli Cansunar, and Ray Duch. 2024, “The Distributive Basis of Tax Compliance.” Journal of Politics, Conditionally accepted.
“Why Is It So Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality? Evidence from England and Wales” with Ben Ansell, Laure Bokobza, Mads Andreas Elkjaer, Matthias Haslberger, Jacob Nyrup. World Politics. Forthcoming.
Working papers
“Homogenizing High Street: Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination” with Berfin Baydar
2024 Weber Best Paper in Religion and Politics Award by the Religion & Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
2024 Best Paper on Social and Economic Inequality Award by the Inequality & Class Section of the American Political Science Association
“Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul” with Timur Kuran
Coercion, Lords and the Limits of Iron Fist Development (with Pablo Beramendi and Berfin Baydar)
Who Gets Punished: Inter-Group Bias and Behavioral Consequences of Conflict (with Arzu Kibris and Efe Tokdemir)
“Cheap Egalitarians? Incidence, Information and Demand for Redistribution” (with Pablo Beramendi and Hyeok Yong Kwon)
“Local Economies, Local Wealth, and Economic Perceptions” with Ben Ansell
“Tax Exposure and Political Preferences” (with Ben Ansell and Mads Andreas Elkjær)
"Burden-sharing or profit-sharing? A survey experiment on the rural support for renewable energy projects" (with Inhwan Ko, Nives Dolšak, and Aseem Prakash)
Work in PROGRESS
Beyond the Party Line: Gendered Priorities in Parliamentary Debates (with Fatih Serkant Adiguzel, Selin Bayrak, Alperen Davran, Yusuf Magiya, and Ayça Şentürk)
Does Top-Down Secularization Impact the Emergence of Independent Businesswomen? Evidence from Republican Turkey (with Berfin Baydar and Nela Mrchkovska)
Is Seeing Believing? How Public Service Visibility Influences Local Government Spending and Procurement Policies (with Serkant Adiguzel, Mustafa Kaba, and Murat Koyuncu)
Broadcasting Heritage: The Role of Radio in Preserving Minority Identity (with Nela Mrchkovska)
What's in a Name? Naming Practices as Acts of Political Resistance" (with Ramses Llobet and Nela Mrchkovska)
How do Wealth and Income Affect Individuals’ Attitudes toward Redistribution and Taxation? (with Ben Ansell, Laure Bokobza, Mads Andreas Elkjaer, Jonas Markgraf, Jacob Nyrup) [Pre-Analysis Plan]
Social Mobility and Housing (with Ben Ansell, Pablo Beramendi, Laure Bokobza, Mads Andreas Elkjaer, Matthias Haslberger , Jacob Nyrup)
DATA
Istanbul Telephone Directories Project (in progress, joint work with Berfin Baydar)
Echoes of Change: Turkish Petitions 1928-1950 (in progress, joint work with Nela Mrchkovska)
Electoral Atlas of Turkey: 1950-1990 (in progress, joint work with Berfin Baydar and Pablo Beramendi)
Book Chapters
Tugba Bozcaga and Asli Cansunar. “Combining Mobile Data and Satellite Imaging for Human Mobility,” in Data Science for Migration and Mobility (Salah, Korkmaz, Bircan, eds.), Oxford University Press, 2023.