The quest for democracy in Iran : a century of struggle against authoritarian rule / Fakhreddin Azimi.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008Description: xiv, 492 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780674027787 (alk. paper); 0674027787 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Democracy -- Iran | Iran -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 955.05 LOC classification: JQ1789.A15 | A95 2008Online resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | Centre for International Peace & Stability (CIPS) | NFIC | General Stacks | 955.05 AZI 2008 (Browse shelf) | Available | CIPS0000937 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-479) and index.
Prologue : in search of a national covenant -- Constituting a national community (1906-1953). Constitutional trial and error -- Pahlavist absolutism -- Restoration of parliamentary politics -- Authoritarian supremacy : consolidation and collapse (1953-1979). The trajectories of monarchism -- Revolution : chronicle of an implosion -- The edifice and emplacements of royal rule -- Elective affinities : western imperial interests and authoritarian monarchy -- The architecture of royalist hegemony -- A culture of confrontation -- The eclipse of popular sovereignty : Iran since 1979. The unfolding of clerical rule : oligarchy by divine right? -- The culture of politics : the presence and absence of the past -- Predicaments and prospects -- Epilogue : the resilience of modernity.
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