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The Iranian Revolution Then And Now [electronic resource] : Indicators Of Regime Instability
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zahedi, Dariush.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iran--Politics and government--1979-1997.
- Iran--Politics and government--1997-.
- Opposition (Political science)--Iran.
- Local Subjects:
- Iran--Politics and government--1979-1997.
- Iran--Politics and government--1997-.
- Opposition (Political science)--Iran.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Westview Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; The Disintegration of the Iranian Revolution; The Research Question: Is Iran Ripe for Another Revolution?; Methodology: Juxtaposing and Comparing; Notes; 2 The Problem of Revolution; What Is Revolution?; The Variety of Revolutions; Variability Among Revolutions; The Problem of Revolution Resolved?; An Alternate Approach to Explicating and Projecting Revolutions; Notes; 3 The Social Underpinnings of Present-Day and Prerevolutionary Regimes: The Intelligentsia, the Clerics, and the Bazaaris; The Intelligentsia; The Clerics; The Bazaaris; Notes
- 4 The Social Underpinnings of the Monarchy and the Theocracy: The Business Community, the Middle Class, and the DispossessedThe Modern Business Community; The Modern Middle Class; The Middle Class and the Islamic Republic; The Dispossessed; The Dispossessed Today; Notes; 5 The Oppositional Forces: From Temporary Cohesion to Large-Scale Demoralization and Disorganization; The Oppositional Forces in the Pahlavi Era; The Opposition Today; Notes; 6 Comparing the Nature and Leadership Qualities of Prerevolutionary and Postrevolutionary Authoritarian Regimes; A Personalistic Autocracy
- An Institutionalized TheocracyComparing Iran''s Decisionmakers Then and Now: The Strength of Turbans Versus the Crown; The Shah''s Prevarications in the Face of Adversity: A Recurrent Pattern; Overcoming Internal Divisions and Crushing External Challenges: A Recurrent Clerical Pattern?; The Impact of Khatami''s Election: From Open Confrontations and Widening Schisms to Unrestrained and Devilitating Factionalism?; Notes; 7 Conclusion: The Problem of Revolution Revisited; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4294-8909-X
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