Murat Abus

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political Science

GOVERNMENT, LAW & POLICY · ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY

I am an incoming Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political Science at the Department of Government, Law & Policy at Arkansas State University. I am an affiliate researcher at the Institute for Rural Initiatives. I am also an affiliate researcher at the Institure for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship.

I am interested in election science, political behavior, public administration, political communication, public opinion, and local politics. I primarily study how decline in local news affects outcomes at the local level, how background factors affect election administration, how candidate selection processes differ across countries, how local politics and election administration interact in rural settings, and how governments use public administration to generate advantage.

I am originally from Turkey. I grew up in Erzurum in Eastern Turkey with a city center altitude of 6200 feet. I speak Russian in addition to English.