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Basak Kus (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University.
Kus’ research is located at the intersection of political sociology, political economy, public policy, and sociology of law.
http://bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
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Basak Kus (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University.
Kus’ research is located at the intersection of political sociology, political economy, public policy, and sociology of law.
http://bkus.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
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Public Economics
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Comparative Politics
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Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
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Inequality and Stratification
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Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies
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Relief, Recovery, Reform: A Retrospective on the US Policy Responses ...
Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy (2020)
BASAK KUS
The Great Recession presented the US with economic and political challenges that had not been experienced since the time of ...
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Review of THE CODE OF CAPITAL: HOW THE LAW CREATES ...
(2020)
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Contribution to Book
"Vautrin’s Lesson: Historical Trends, Universal Challenges, and Policy Responses”
Twenty-first Century Inequality: Marx, Piketty and Beyond (2018)
BASAK KUS and Dana Louie
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SPERI-Paper-29-Dodd-Frank-From-Economic-Crisis-to-Regulatory-Reform.pdf
SPERI Working Paper #29 (2016)
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Financial Citizenship and the Hidden Crisis of the Working Class ...
Middle East Report (2016)
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Wealth Inequality: Historical Trends and Cross-National Differences
Sociology Compass (2016)
BASAK KUS
This article provides an overview of the recent literature on wealth inequality from a comparative and historical perspective. I first ...
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Income Inequality, Credit and Public Support for Redistribution
Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy (2015)
BASAK KUS and Wen FAN
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Sociology of Debt: States, Credit Markets, and Indebted Citizens
Sociology Compass (2015)
BASAK KUS
Within the context of the recent financial crisis, the causes and implications of mounting levels of household indebtedness have begun ...
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Weak States, Unruly Capitalists, and the Rise of Étatism in ...
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2015)
BASAK KUS
Understanding why some nations turned to étatism in the early stages of economy building remains central to political economy. A ...
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The informal road to markets: Neoliberal reforms, private entrepreneurship and ...
International Journal of Social Economics (2014)
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The informal economy has expanded across developing countries during the last decades. Focussing on the Turkish case, the purpose of ...
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Credit, consumption, and debt: Comparative perspectives
International Journal of Comparative Sociology (2013)
BASAK KUS
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“Consumption and Redistributive Politics: The Effect of Credit and China.”
International Journal of Comparative Sociology (2013)
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Financialization and Income Inequality in OECD Countries: 1995-2007
Economic and Social Review (2012)
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Regulatory Governance and the Informal Economy: Cross-National Comparisons
Socio-Economic Review (2010)
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United We Restrain, Divided We Rule: Neoliberalism and Labor Unions ...
European Journal of Turkish Studies (2010)
BASAK KUS and Isik Ozel
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Neoliberalism, Institutional Change and the Welfare State: The Case of ...
International Journal of Comparative Sociology (2006)
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Blaming Immigrants for Economic Troubles
Social Europe (2018)
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Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State
Policy Trajectories (2016)
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Is Radical Change Possible? #Elections2016 #HillaryClinton #BernieSanders
Policy Trajectories (2016)
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“To tackle household debt we must address supply and demand”
LSE Politics & Policy (2015)
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GE's return to its industrial roots offers hope US ...
The Conversation (2015)
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Turkey’s general election upset: the rise of the AKP ...
The Conversation (2015)
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“Inequality has contributed to increasing credit use- and increasing credit ...
Policy Trajectories (2015)
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Other
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Financialization, Credit and Inequality