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Ali Çarkoğlu is currently a professor of political science at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University, Istanbul. He received his Ph. D. at the State University of New York-Binghamton in 1994. His areas of research interest include voting behavior, public opinion and party politics in Turkey. He has taken part in teams of researchers conducting several surveys of public opinion on political Islam, philanthropy in Muslim countries, corruption, informality, attitudes towards EU membership and voting behavior in Turkey. He is on the editorial board of the SSCI index journal the Turkish Studies and served as the Research Director at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation (TESEV) between 2000-2001. He was a Resident Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) during the academic year 2008-2009. His publications appeared in the European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, Turkish Studies, New Perspectives on Turkey, South European Society and Politics, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Studies and in edited volumes. He co-edited with Barry Rubin Turkey and the European Union, Domestic Politics, Economic Integration and International Dynamics, Special Issue of Turkish Studies, vol. 4 no. 1 Spring 2003 which was also published as a separate book by Frank Cass. His most recent book co-authored with Ersin Kalaycıoğlu on Turkish voting behavior in the general elections of November 2002 appeared from I. B. Tauris: Turkish Democracy Today: Elections, Protest and Stability in an Islamic Society, (February, 2007). His new book with Ersin Kalaycıoğlu The Rising Tide of Conservatism in Turkey was printed in 2009 by Palgrave.
Prof. Çarkoğlu remains active on researching the EU related research. He regularly writes the Turkish country report for Eurobarometer surveys. He is part of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) which runs nation-wide surveys of a comparative nature every year which allows collection of yearly data on popular support for EU membership in Turkey. He is currently co-editing with Gamze Avcı-Boer a double special issue for the South European Society and Politics on EU-Turkey relations Whither Turkey? Taking Stock of the Dynamics that Shape EU Reforms due to appear in 2011.