Thesis (M.S.)--Middle East Technical University, 2003. / Keywords: globalization, leisure, consumption, space, place, social identity, symbolic boundary, social distinction, fashion, lifestyle.

Thesis (M.S.)--Middle East Technical University, 2004. / Keywords: Regionalism, ASEAN, China, Japan, Economic Relations, Southeast Asia.

Thesis (M.S.) -- Middle East Technical University, 2005. / Keywords: Alienation, Modernity, Turkish Modernization, Turkish Novels, Emancipation.

Thesis (M.S.) -- Middle East Technical University, 2004. / Keywords: Free Software, Open Source Software, diffusion of innovation, web-based survey.

Thesis (M.S.) -- Middle East Technical University, 2004. / Keywords: European Union, flexible work arrangements, Lisbon Strategy.

Thesis (M.S.) -- Middle East Technical University, 2004. / Keywords: crusades, Medieval Knightood, crusader castles, Cyprus.

Thesis (M.S.) -- Middle East Technical University, 2004. / Keywords: Property, property right, development right, disaster, mitigation, redevelopment.

The aim of this thesis is to search for the best way to allocate revenues gathered from a group of products in a household supplies company. In so doing, it purports to determine the price which brings customer perception and organizational benefit to equilibrium. To compare alternatives of revenue allocation methods, data obtained for a main product and its variants from a household company will be analyzed in an organized manner. Three ways of product bundling (pure bundling, mixed bundling, unbundling) is discussed as a framework for underlying different detailed aspects. In the end, pricing and promotional policies of the company is critically evaluated and simultaneous strategy changes are suggested.

This thesis discusses one of the primary questions of the debates on China, the question of the nature of Chinese transformation. It is suggested in this thesis that to fully grasp the transformation of China, we need to contextualize it within global neoliberal transformations since the 1980s. It is also argued that even if the transformation in China has been heavily influenced by global tendencies, we still have to recognize peculiar characteristics of Chinese transformation. Thus, the thesis aims to contribute to the scholarly discussions on the nature of Chinese transformation especially by way of critically engaging with &lsquo / Beijing Consensus&rsquo / , a notion that is relatively new and opens to the scientific debates. In the thesis, a decade-based analysis of the transformation in China is provided. In this regard, this thesis identifies the period between Deng&rsquo / s coming to power in 1978 and his Southern Tour in 1992 as the period of &lsquo / launching of the reforms&rsquo / . It is argued that the reforms introduced in the 1980s are of vital importance in terms of abandoning the legacies of Maoist period and the construction of the institutions of a capitalist market economy in China. On the other hand, the 1990s period that ends with the change of leadership from Jiang Zemin to Hu Jintao in 2002 is characterized as the period of &lsquo / consolidation of the reforms&rsquo / . It is assumed that the reform drive in the 1990s has a pivotal role for the consolidation of the current configuration of state, labour, capital relations in China.

In this study, the attitude of the European Union towards the Principle of Subsidiarity and the way it utilizes this principle is analyzed. Besides putting forward the fundamental principles of subsidiarity within the historical framework that it has evolved through, the factors that made the Union adopt subsidiarity and the attitude of the Community institutions towards this principle are examined. In this regard, the role that the principle of subsidiarity has played in the European integration process so far and those that it may play in the future formation of the Union is discussed.