PHD Student, Political Science
Mehmet Hecan is a Ph.D. candidate at the department of Political Science. He has been doing his dissertational research on comparative energy transition policies in Europe. His research interests include comparative political economy, industrial policy, green politics, democratization in the Middle East and multi-method methodology. To learn more about Hecan’s research and publications, visit his webpage.
In spring 2023, Mehmet received a CISS award to support his project on social science methodology, which aims to map qualitative multi-methods according to their different functions throughout the entire research process ranging from causal inference to generalization. He aims to explain how different qualitative methods can be combined with one another and how their optimal combinations can be formed. Learn more in our featured article.