Episode 21: This month, we talk to Tuğba Bozçağa, Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative and Ph.D. student in Political Science at MIT. In 2018, Tugba received a GLD Short Term Grant to study social proximity among bureaucrats in Turkey. Tugba's research has culminated in this month's GLD working paper: The Social Bureaucrat: How Social Proximity among Bureaucrats Affects Local Governance. In this episode of Governance Uncovered, we hear more about her research and her experiences from the field. Tugba also explains the policy implications of her research – namely how it offers an alternative explanation to why the quality of public services may be lower in minority or predominantly immigrant neighborhoods.
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