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

Published Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (x, 406 pages) 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 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.-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 25, 2016) Subject Democratization -- Iran Democratization -- Developing countries Islam and politics -- Iran POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Middle Eastern. Democratization Islam and politics Politics and government SUBJECT Iran -- Politics and government -- 1997- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98004950 Subject Developing countries Iran Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674970434 0674970438

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