Bu kitap, parlamentolarda diasporaların temsilinin karşılaştırmalı olarak ele alındığı önemli bir çalışma olarak ciddi bir boşluk dolduracaktır. Türkiye’nin yurt dışında yaşayan seçmenlere oy kullanma hakkını yaygın olarak kullandırmaya başladığı  2014 yılından beri giderek artan katılımla beraber parlamento temsil hakkının da tartışılmaya açıldığı dönemde gelecek için ışık tutacak bir çalışma olacaktır.

Mehmet KÖSE

Yurtdışı Türkler ve Akraba Topluluklar Başkanlığı’nın (YTB) eski Başkanı

Sağlıklı bir diaspora politikası olmayan devletler genelde sağlıklı bir göçmen politikası da üretemezler. Göç olgusunun her geçen gün arttığı bir dönemde diasporanın temsili meselesi Türkiye için kilit konulardan birisidir. Bu kitap karşılaştırmalı bir açıdan Türkiye için örnekler sunmakta ve diasporanın mecliste temsilinin sistemsel, hukuksal ve siyasi olarak nasıl mümkün olabileceğine dair kapsamlı bir yaklaşım geliştirmektedir. Türkiye’de alanında ilklerden olan bu kitabı siyaset bilimi ve uluslararası ilişkilerle hem teorik hem de pratik olarak ilgilenenlere özellikle tavsiye ederim.

Doç. Dr. Mehmet ÖZKAN

Center for Global Policy, Washington DC, ABD

Economic cybercrime is one of the unwelcomed consequences of unprecedented intrusion of the Internet in our daily lives. Academic interest in understanding the causes and adverse impacts of cybercrime is growing. Opportunity perspective, which perceives individuals’ daily routines and lifestyles as the primary facilitator of victimization, has been widely applied as a theoretical and conceptual framework in cybercrime victimization research. However, this approach put the responsibility of the victimization on victims explicitly, which hampers the application of crime prevention and reduction efforts. This book presents the Contextual Vulnerabilities approach based on the significant findings of a doctoral study conducted at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Contextual vulnerabilities approach posits that cybercrime victimization is the outcome of the confluence of contextual factors that are mostly beyond victims’ control. This approach presumes that controlling individual (micro-level), macro-level and socio-cultural vulnerabilities may prevent cybercrime victimization. Though the preliminary goal of this book is to provide a new theoretical perspective to scholars researching victimization in cyberspace, I hope the wider audience would find it informative.

The determinants of local government performance have long been of interest, and have been empirically investigated in a number of recent studies. A general question in this area is: why have some local governments across the countries achieved high rates of performance whilst the others remained at lower levels? Evidence from the relevant literature indicates that some local governments or municipalities, particularly in developed countries, achieve very good performance. Others, in particular those from underdeveloped or developing, have very little or almost no performance.

This research empirically investigates the budgeting conditions in North Cyprus and evaluate how budgeting conditions vary from one municipality to the other in the five major municipalities; Lefkosa, Magusa, Girne, Guzelyurt and Iskele over the period 2004Q1 to 2012Q4. Two types of methodologies are conducted. First; it empirically investigates the determinants of local government deficit by using cointegration techniques. The Johansen co-integration and The Vector Error Correction model (VECM) are applied to test the effect of each element such as own-source revenue, grants, expenditures and debt services on the budget deficit. Second, the study test the convergence hypothesis if similar regions within the country converge to the same long-run steady state by considering five major Cypriot municipalities in the North Cyprus economy.

The results from the empirical analysis on budget deficit findings show that there is evidence of a long-run relationship between general deficit and its determinants. The evidence of causality is found from expenditure and debt to general deficit for Lefkosa municipality. There is unidirectional causality from grant and revenue through deficit for Magusa municipality. Third empirical analysis on convergence introduced that the municipalities with the lowest number of people per staff, commonly diverge from the group mean.