Murat Somer

Murat Somer is a professor of politics at Özyeğin University and a senior democracy and development fellow at Central European University. His publications on polarization/depolarization, democratic erosion/recovery and oppositions, secular and religious politics, and ethnic conflicts include Polarizing Polities: A Global Threat to Democracy (coedited with Jennifer McCoy); his current book project is Depolarizing Politics and Remaking Democracy (coauthored with Jennifer McCoy).