Democracy in Iran : why it failed and how it might succeed /

Democracy in Iran : why it failed and how it might succeed /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Parsa, Misagh, 1945- author.
Imprint:Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2016.
Description:1 online resource (x, 406 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Democratization -- Iran.
Democratization -- Developing countries.
Islam and politics -- Iran.
Democratization.
Islam and politics.
Politics and government.
Iran -- Politics and government -- 1997-
Developing countries.
Iran.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12646452
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ISBN:9780674970434
0674970438
9780674545045
0674545044
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 25, 2016).
Summary:Democracy in Iran examines democratization movements and processes in Iran over the last few decades, explains the causes of their failure, and suggests possible route to successful democratization. The book proposes a new framework for analyzing routes for democratization in the context of extremely authoritarian regimes in developing countries, specifically, the Islamic Republic of Iran. The new framework specifies the relevant variables in the economic, political, ideological, and social conditions of developing countries that determine alternative paths to democratization.--
Other form:Print version: Parsa, Misagh, 1945- Democracy in Iran. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, Massachusetts / 2016 9780674545045 0674545044
Standard no.:10.4159/9780674970434
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction and theocracy: Iran's dilemma
  • Alternative routes to democracy: synthesizing structures and processes
  • Part II. Revolution and the political economy of theocracy: Ideologies, revolution, and the formation of theocracy
  • Politicizing the economy and declining performance
  • Failure to reform and return to repression
  • Part III. Challenges against the Islamic regime: Students: the vanguard of struggles for democracy
  • The rise and demise of the Green movement
  • Part IV. Irreconcilable conflicts
  • Why the movement failed
  • Irreconcilable conflicts and endless repression
  • The path forward.

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