Türkiye'deki İktisat Bölümlerinde Akademik Kendileşme (original) (raw)

2023, METU-ERC Working Papers

Academic Inbreeding in Economics Departments of Turkey H. Cem Doğan Independent Researcher-Economist. e-mail: hcdogan@msn.com Haluk Kasnakoğlu METU, Retired Professor of Economics e-mail: haluk.kasnakoğlu@gmail.com Abstract The subject of this paper is to investigate to what extent academicians with PhDs, employed in economics departments of Turkey, obtained their academic degrees and titles in the same institutions. This situation, which is referred to as Academic Inbreeding is investigated in 136 economics departments in Turkey for 1354 academicians with PhDs using different criteria and measures. In general academic inbreeding is measured as the ratio of number of academicians in a department who received their PhDs from the same department to the total number of academics with PhDs in the department. The national average inbreeding is the ratio of academics with PhDs from the same department they are employed to the total number of academicians with PhDs. 405 academicians in economics departments in Turkey received their PhDs from the same department. This implies an average inbreeding ratio of 30% for all economics departments. This ratio increases to 43% when we exclude departments which do not have PhD graduates in the system where inbreeding is by definition zero. When we consider only the economics departments where inbreeding is non zero, the ratio increases to 49%. Academic imbreeding is between %90-%100 in Çukurova, Atatürk and Afyon Kocatepe universities and over 80% in Selçuk, İstanbul, Marmara, Anadolu and Erciyes universities. In addition to the commonly employed measure of academic inbreeding which only takes into account PhDs, the study develops additional inbreeeding measures and their varients, such as Strong Inbreeding which takes into account the other degrees obtained fronm the same department in addition to PhDs, and Very Strong Inbreeding which takes into account the academic titles obtained in the same department in addition to academic degrees. Economics departments in Çukurova, Afyon Kocatepe, Atatürk, Selçuk, Erciyes, Marmara and İstanbul universities hold the highest ranks in all measures of inbreeding. Economics departments in Pamukkale, İstanbul Medeniyet, Bilecik Şeyh Edebali, Akdeniz, Bandırma Onyedi Eylül, Trakya universities and Middle East Technical University score the lowest inbreeding scores. The paper also looks at the relationships between the various measures of inbreeding developed and variables they potentially influence such as academic performance and influenced by such as department age. Keywords: Academic Inbreeding, Economics, Ph.D. JEL Classifications: I21, I23, J24, J62