Book Projects

Cambridge Elements in Political Economy: Triaging Responsiveness, with Nela Mrchkovska. Under advance contract with Cambridge University Press.

Homogenizing High Street: Wealthy Minorities and the Economic Foundations of Nation Building (in progress).

Publications

1. Beramendi, Pablo, Asli Cansunar, and Raymond Duch. "Distributive Basis of Tax Compliance." Journal of Politics, forthcoming.

2. Adolph, Christopher, Caitlin Ainsley, and Asli Cansunar. "Irregularities in Perez Brower (2024), Reframing Gendered Issues: Intersectional Identity Frames and Policy Agendas." Political Behavior, forthcoming.

3. Ansell, Ben, Asli Cansunar, and Mads Andreas Elkjaer (2026). "Tax Exposure and Political Preferences." Socio-Economic Review.

4. Ko, Inhwan, Nives Dolšak, Asli Cansunar, and Aseem Prakash (2026). "Climate Policy Beliefs, not Problem Visibility, Drive Rural Opposition to Wind Energy Projects." Environmental Research Communications 8(3): 035017.

5. Ansell, Ben, Laure Bokobza, Asli Cansunar, Mads Andreas Elkjaer, Matthias Haslberger, and Jacob Nyrup (2025). "Why Is It So Hard to Counteract Rising Wealth Inequality? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in England and Wales." World Politics 77(3): 515–561.

6. Cansunar, Asli, and Nela Mrchkovska (2024). "Beyond the Classroom? Primary Schools and Rural Civic Participation." Journal of Historical Political Economy 3(4): 501–525.

7. Adiguzel, Fatih Serkant, Asli Cansunar, and Gozde Corekcioglu (2023). "Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Electoral Responses to the Proximity of Health Care." Journal of Politics 85(2): 667–683.

8. Cansunar, Asli (2022). "Distributional Consequences of Philanthropic Contributions to Public Goods: Self-Serving Elite in Ottoman Istanbul."Journal of Politics 84(2): 889–907.APSA MENA Politics Section Best Article Award, 2023.

9. Cansunar, Asli (2021). "Who Is High Income, Anyway? Social Comparison, Subjective Group Identification, and Preferences over Progressive Taxation." Journal of Politics 83(4): 1292–1306.

10. Ansell, Ben, Asli Cansunar, and Mads Andreas Elkjaer (2021). "Social Distancing, Politics and Wealth." West European Politics 44(5–6): 1283–1313.

11. Bozcaga, Tugba, and Asli Cansunar (2021). "The Unintended Consequences of Nation-Making Institutions for Civil Society Development." Journal of Historical Political Economy 1(4): 591–613.

12. Ansell, Ben, and Asli Cansunar (2021). "The Political Consequences of Housing (Un)affordability." Journal of European Social Policy 31(5): 597–613.

13. Adiguzel, Fatih Serkant, Asli Cansunar, and Gozde Corekcioglu (2020). "Truth or Dare? Detecting Systematic Manipulation of COVID-19 Statistics."Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 1(4): 543–557.

Working Papers

• Cansunar, Asli, Arzu Kibris, and Efe Tokdemir. "Ethnic Cues and Conflict-Triggered Harassment: Evidence from Soccer Fields." Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Politics.

  • 2026 Best Paper Award, APSA MENA Politics Section.

• Cansunar, Asli, and Berfin Baydar. "Homogenizing High Street: Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination." (Under review)

  • 2024 Weber Best Paper in Religion and Politics Award, APSA Religion & Politics Section.

  • 2024 Best Paper on Social and Economic Inequality Award, APSA Inequality & Class Section.

  • 2025 Best Paper Award, APSA MENA Politics Section.

• Cansunar, Asli, and Timur Kuran. "Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul." (Under review)

• Cansunar, Asli, Pablo Beramendi, and Hyeok Yong Kwon. "Cheap Egalitarians? Incidence, Information and Demand for Redistribution." (Under review)

• Cansunar, Asli, Pablo Beramendi, and Berfin Baydar. "Historical Electoral Atlas of Turkey." (Under review)

• Cansunar, Asli, Pablo Beramendi, and Berfin Baydar. "Coercion, Lords and the Limits of Iron Fist Development."

• Cansunar, Asli, and Ben Ansell. "Local Economies, Local Wealth, and Economic Perceptions."

• Cansunar, Asli, Ramses Llobet, Can Bodrumlu, and Nela Mrchkovska. "What's in a Name? Naming Practices as Acts of Political Resistance."

• Cansunar, Asli. "Gone to Friday Prayers, Back Soon: Religious Norms, Top-Down Secularization, and State Capacity.’

Work in Progress

• "Emancipated but Unliberated? Top-Down Secularization and the Emergence of Female Entrepreneurs" (with Berfin Baydar and Nela Mrchkovska)

• "Broadcasting Heritage: The Role of Radio in Preserving Minority Identity" (with Nela Mrchkovska)

• "Under the Iron Gavel: Probing the Quieting Effect of Authoritarian University Takeovers on Political Science Research" (with Can Bodrumlu)