Ayda Eraydın

E-mail

ayda@metu.edu.tr

Department

Department of City and Regional Planning

ORCID

0000-0002-7978-4869

Web of Science Researcher ID

B-1344-2018

Infrastructuralism, distributive politics and the persistence of populist rule Ozatagan, Guldem; Eraydın, Ayda (2025-11-07) This paper offers a practice-oriented lens and a context-sensitive approach to inquire into what populists do when in government and how resilient they remain. Bringing in-depth country insights on Turkey as an exemplary a...
Situating regional policies: how important are they in populist surge and political divides in Europe? DEMİRDAĞ, İsmail; Ozatagan, Guldem; Eraydın, Ayda (2025-09-09) In this paper, we argue that understanding the role of regional policies and their outcomes on the recent populist disaffection of European voters with mainstream politics and their role in the political divides of Europe ...
Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s) Özatağan, Güldem; Fearn, Gareth; Eraydın, Ayda (2025-01-01) This Special Issue presents ‘authoritarian neoliberal urbanism’ as an empirical marker and a concept that signposts the ascendence of a new constellation in which authoritarianism becomes an ever-growing force in our citie...
Binaries again! Revisiting the urban-rural question through geographies of discontent Özatağan, Güldem; Eraydın, Ayda (2024-10-01) A decade ago, leading scholars suggested that the ‘extended’ and ‘planetary’ form contemporary urbanisation has taken blurred demarcations of urban and rural and rendered the urban-rural binary an obsolete conceptual categ...
Regions, Entrepreneurship and Institutions: The Role of Institutions on the Entrepreneurship Profiles of Regions DEMİRDAĞ, İsmail; Eraydın, Ayda (2024-01-01) The paper argues that institutions, particularly those that are region-specific, play a prominent role in the different pathways to entrepreneurship. Empirical evidence based on primary data on four different regions in Tü...
Entrepreneurship in hyper-diverse neighborhoods: An exploratory study in 13 European cities Eraydın, Ayda (2023-03-28) The relationship between neighbourhood diversity and entrepreneurship has been discussed concerning neighbourhoods where immigrants with different cultural and ethnic backgrounds are concentrated. Recently, these immigrant...
Entrepreneuring in Diverse Neighbourhoods: Policies and Minority Business in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Milan and Warsaw Barberis, Eduardo; Eraydın, Ayda; Nielsen, Rikke Skovgaard; Korcelli-Olejniczak, Ewa (2023-01-01) Recent literature claims that minority entrepreneurship is changing, e.g., entering non-ethnic sectors. A change partly related to spatial transformations (such as gentrification) in neighbourhoods where minorities are set...
Political twists and turns in left-behind places: reactions of an extractive heartland to changing state strategies Özatağan, Güldem; Eraydın, Ayda (2023-01-01) This paper investigates the twists and turns that characterise the political reactions of some ‘left-behind’ places. Offering a situated, context-sensitive and temporal analysis of Turkey’s once extractive heartland, we un...
Distinctive role of region-specific institutions in regional entrepreneurship patterns: evidence from turkish regions DEMİRDAĞ, İsmail; Eraydın, Ayda (2022-04-01) There are substantial differences in the entrepreneurship levels of different regions. Recent studies have shown that supply- and demand-side determinants fall short of explaining the level and type of entrepreneurship of ...
Explaining regional differences in firm formation rates: how far are government policies important for entrepreneurship? Demirdağ, İsmail; Eraydın, Ayda (2020-07-01) Purpose - The growing number of studies shows that government policies and measures are critical in determining entrepreneurship levels of regions. Any changes in the government policies and measures are, therefore, expect...

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