A social revolution : politics and the welfare state in Iran /

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Author / Creator:	Harris, Kevan, 1978- author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Description:	xiii, 316 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Social conditions. Iran -- Social conditions -- 1979-1997. Iran -- Social conditions -- 1997- Iran -- History -- 1979-1997. Iran -- History -- 1997- Iran. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11294806

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ISBN:	9780520280816 0520280814 9780520280823 0520280822
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"For decades, political observers and pundits have characterized the Islamic Republic of Iran as an ideologically rigid state on the verge of collapse, exclusively connected to a narrow social base. In A Social Revolution, Kevan Harris convincingly demonstrates how they are wrong. Previous studies ignore the forceful consequences of three decades of social change following the 1979 revolution. Today, more people in the country are connected to welfare and social policy institutions than to any other form of state organization. In fact, much of Iran's current political turbulence is the result of the success of these social welfare programs, which have created newly educated and mobilized social classes advocating for change. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in Iran between 2006 and 2011, Harris shows how the revolutionary regime endured though the expansion of health, education, and aid programs that have both embedded the state in everyday life and empowered its challengers. This first serious book on the social policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran opens a new line of inquiry into the study of welfare states in countries where they are often overlooked or ignored"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Online version: Harris, Kevan, 1978- Social revolution. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520965843

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Can an oil state be a welfare state?
Seeing like a king : welfare policy as state-building strategy in the Pahlavi monarchy
Creating a martyrs' welfare state : 1979, war, and the survival of the Islamic Republic
The revolution embedded : rural transformations and the demographic miracle
Development and distinction : welfare state expansion and the politics of the new middle class
Lineages of the Iranian welfare state
Conclusion : development contradictions through the lens of welfare politics.

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