The Europeanization of Turkish Asylum Policy: An Intensive Case Study on the European Union Accession Process Effect on the Evolution of Turkish Asylum Policy and the Adoption of the Law on Foreigners and International Protection
This thesis aims to explain the effect of Turkey’s accession process to the European Union on its asylum policy’s evolution. By applying two branches of new institutional theory––rational choice and social institutionalism––the thesis analyzed the Europeanization phenomenon of the European Union’s accession effect on domestic policy change. In order to do so, process tracing and document analysis