Tugba Bozcaga

Dr. Tugba Bozcaga is a Lecturer in Politics & Political Methodology (equivalent to Assistant Professor with tenure) at King's College London's School of Politics & Economics, Department of European & International Studies. She holds affiliations with Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative and Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. Her expertise lies in comparative political economy, focusing on public service provision, state capacity, distributive politics, and refugee integration in the Global South. She employs mixed methods combining quasi-experimental designs with fieldwork and archival research.

Education: PhD in Political Science from MIT (2020), Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University. Awards include the APSA Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Prize (Honorable Mention), Weber Best Conference Paper Award, and multiple discipline-specific recognitions. Her research has been supported by Harvard Data Science Initiative and MIT Center for International Studies.

Research Interests: Political economy of development, bureaucracy & state capacity, distributive politics, education politics, social welfare, and migration. Her work frequently examines Turkey and other Global South contexts, emphasizing institutional dynamics and policy impacts.

Teaching: Leads courses like Research Design, Quantitative Methods, and Political Economy of Development in Muslim Societies. Supervises PhD students in comparative political economy using mixed/quantitative methods. Office hours: Monday 14:00-15:00 and Friday 11:30-12:30.

Labs/Groups: Active in King's Comparative Politics Research Group (focusing on political institutions and representation) and serves on the Politics of the Global South (POGS) working group. Engaged in promoting inclusivity for underrepresented scholars via APSA committees.