Yusuf Evirgen

Postdoc @CounsterProject I Prev. @FMVIsikUniv, @BingPoliSci @BinghamtonIGMAP | Working on Conflict, Coups, Human Rights, Refugees, State Repression.

[Yusuf Evirgen @evirgenyusuff]

Comparing Turkey with Greece and Spain, we place Turkey on a Mediterranean spectrum from highly centralized to more decentralized models.

[Yusuf Evirgen @evirgenyusuff]

Proud to share our new article with my mentor @rabiakarakaya77 in Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

https://t.co/1MsH9EyPCu

[Yusuf Evirgen @evirgenyusuff]

Our answer: it depends on how two dimensions of multi-level governance interact, the vertical (who holds mandates, authority and resources) and the horizontal (how far non-state actors are involved).

[Yusuf Evirgen @evirgenyusuff]

A nuclear North Korea is quietly becoming normal. My new policy paper at @SIGA_Institute on why stopping it matters, and why it has become harder. https://t.co/0shisisomC

[Yusuf Evirgen @evirgenyusuff]

"The main result is that the differences between models are small. Claude Opus 5 has the highest mean F1 (0.714). The best open-weight model, Qwen3.8 Flash-Next (FP8), reaches 0.675 and scores above four of the 11 API models."
https://t.co/BL9x9BlW72

[Counster Project @CounsterProject]

Our postdoc fellow, @evirgenyusuff, presented his research titled “From Reports to Data: Harnessing LLMs for Fine-Grained Human Rights Data Collection” at the 2026 Annual Meeting of @APSAtweets, held in Boston, USA, on September 3–6, 2026.

[Counster Project @CounsterProject]

👋 Meet Dr. @evirgenyusuff, post-doctoral fellow.
Yusuf studies state repression, coups & human rights, combining big-data methods with elite interviews & fieldwork. He joins COUNSTER from Binghamton University (SUNY). Head over to our website for details on his research!

[Yusuf Evirgen @evirgenyusuff]

Researchers who mix quantitative and qualitative methods are, to quote the political scientist Atul Kohli’s wonderfully insightful joke, “stuck between a rock and a soft place.” Reviewers reject them because of a perceived lack of rigor, and editors do not see the added value.

[In Development @indevmag]

Economists pride themselves on their rigor and empirical methods.

This week, @bijurao argues this creates distance between the studier and the studied - and is one of the key problems with economics.

https://t.co/040eC7nwvU

[AEA Journals @AEAjournals]

Forthcoming in the AER: "Difference-in-Differences with a Continuous Treatment" by Brantly Callaway, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, and Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna. https://t.co/DK3l1laHyQ

[Counster Project @CounsterProject]

Welcome to the official page of COUNSTER, a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator project hosted at Bilkent University for five years.

Follow us to keep up with the project's research, fieldwork, and findings, and keep an eye out for the launch of our website.

[Batuhan Parmaksız @BatuhanPrmksz]

Bu vesileyle ben de bir haberimi paylaşmış olayım. Hikmet Kıvılcımlı üzerine olan tez çalışmamı sürdürmek üzere eylül ayından itibaren bir süre Dr. Alp Yenen (@alp_yenen) hocanın danışmanlığında Leiden Üniversitesi’nde olacağım. Pek tabi IISH arşivlerinde de bol vakit geçireceğim

[あさひな @aaiashn]

Publishing Trends in Political Science: How Publishing Houses, Geographical Positions, and International Collaboration Shapes Academic Knowledge Production
https://t.co/SDsSsuLLTk

[あさひな @aaiashn]

Epistemic Game Theory - https://t.co/yyAdi3EGZu

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Its not Simcity, but business school students who were good at Civ V also turn out to be better planners, organizers, and problem-solvers in this small experiment.