Democracy in Iran
Subtitle: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780674545045
Subjects: Islam and politics; Iran, politics and government; Developing countries, politics and government
Description: 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.--