Mahmut Ersin Kalaycıoğlu is a Turkish

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, professor of political sciences at

Sabancı University Sabancı University () is a private research university that adopts a liberal arts education approach, established in 1994 and located on a 1.26 million squaremeter campus which is about 40 km from Istanbul's city center. Its first students ...

and former president of

Işık University Işık University () is a private university located in Istanbul, Turkey. The university operates under the Feyziye Schools Foundation's Işık Schools, which originated with the establishment of the Feyz-i Sıbyan School in the city of Salonica ...

Istanbul Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ...

(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

Istanbul University Istanbul University, also known as University of Istanbul (), is a Public university, public research university located in Istanbul, Turkey. Founded by Mehmed II on May 30, 1453, a day after Fall of Constantinople, the conquest of Constantinop ...

, 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

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Boğaziçi Üniversitesi''), also known as Bosphorus University, is a Public university, public research university in Istanbul, Turkey, historically tied to a former American educational insti ...

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
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