POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
Year:2011 | Volume:- | Issue:15|Papers Count:9

The point that how the Aristotle’s works should be re-read has always been an important subject to the view of the most Aristotle’s serious interpreters. There are different views and ideas regarding Aristotle’s methodology and its specifications among his interpreters. The article, despite of many discussious and disputes relating to the matter, claims that there are two distinctive and distinguishable methods applied by Aristotle in his studies: Experimental and Dialectical. The first, relates to his direct study of perceptive phenomena, and the second, includes the study of popular opinion. In re-reading Aristotle, the authors have followed their proposed manner and have mainly concentrated on Aristotles’s Politics.

During the 20th century the role of state in developing process has been very considerable, so that, one part of the Third World countries were abled to achieve growth, welfare and development by state and official policy making. It is obvious that all kind of political systems with their particularities could not take such a responsibility, and therefore, there should be those states with suitable thoughts, structures and institutions, in order to prepare necessary conditions to realize development. The article aims, while studing the most important aspects of the developing state, concentrates on the South Korea as one of the successful development case.

For a long time, political science has been influenced by philosophy and ethics and, politics mainly limited to advise political rulers. After great and deep changes in the field of natural sciences, orthodox positivism dominated scientific methodology and very soon it was followed by social sciences including politics. Hereby, experimental and quantitative methods were used by social and political sciences.The article, beyond the extremes in both sides, seeks to study those areas in political facts and events which are preditable by applying statistics and mathematics while it also believes that there are areas which are not predictable. Therefore, “conditional prediction” is the concept which the article prefers to use in this regard.The linkage between political science and mathematics makes easy to formulate modles such as SWOT. Here, on the basis of time serials analytical modle, the author examines the nature and extent of predictability in politic’s.The main goal of this research is to study the interdisciplinary relation between political science and statistics in the framework of future finding. The time serials pattern as an analytical model is regarded as a link between past and future. This will help us to foresee different changes during time fluctuation. In this regard, conditional prediction is measured by:yt=T+C+S+Rand therefore, it seems more compatible with political facts and events.

The article seeks to study the “public sphere” and its active function from Habermas point of view and to show its relation to power structure. It tries to explain the link between public structure democratization as a complementary linkage, so that has been emphasized in Habermas’s The structural change in public Sphere. These are the points that he makes in his book:a) The critique of capitalism and to reveal its contradictions and tensions regarding the rise and fall of public sphere.b) Reconstruction of Frunkfurt School’s Critical Theory as a hopeful window toward future. In this point, Habermas criticizes the instumantal reason and tries to reconstruct communicative reason due to the view that future belongs to the development of communication reason based on discourse ethics and ideal speech situation.c) To overcome Marxism’s theoretical Challenges, he tried to reconstruct Marxism with in a non-orthodox framework by emphasizing on communication reason.In his view, the way out of Marxism’s theoretical crisis is to present a new definition of rationality relating to rebuild new public spaces and areas. Against them, are those areas which belong to state power and market economy and should be regarded as domination.d) The last and essential point is to reconstruct the power structure theory. This should be regarded as the process of democratization of public sphere and to realize it as a main place of democratic action appearance and democratic discourse practice.

The authors of the article have analysed and compared the formation of nation-state during the periods of the Pahlavi and Islamic Republic. Now, the question is whether or not the Islamic Republic has also continued the nationstate attitude after Islamic Revolution and consequently completed the Pahlavi process of nation-state building? The main idea of this article is that, inspiteo of identity, value and norm differences between Islamic Republic and Pahlavi, but, the process of nation-state building, which has been begun officially during first Pahlavi period, continued according to Islamic Republic norms and values. Therefore, despite of some strengths and weaknesses which existed in the process of nation-state formation in both regimes, but we cannot deny the Islamic Republic’s achievements in this regard.

This is a study with interdisciplinary approach on both marketing and political fields. In this regard, research independent variables have been extracted from target oriented market assignment, including unified, centralized, distinctive and ordinary strategies.The dependent variable is to win the election challenges by political parties and organizations which has also been fully extracted from political field. Research approach is quantitative and in respect to its applicability has been composed of both descriptive and explorative methods with interview and questionnaire techniques. Political elites of the country has been regarded as the statistical population which 69 persons among them have bee selected by sampling method. Also, regression method and pierson corelation test have been used to analyse the data.The research results showed that people pay more attention to ordinary and disdict strategies and political parties and organizations can guarantee their success in election through these two strategies.

The political development conserning the relations between Islamic Republic of Iran and European Union within two established discourses has had many important ups and downs since the victory of Islamic Revolution. The fact has faced political development process from time to time with difficulty.Applying peaceful policy within expansionist political oriented discourse has had an important role in friendly relations between Islamic Republic and E.U. countries, and as a result, E.U. countries then turned their critical dialuge policy to constructive one. Following a minimum calm and stable period, the idealist justice oriented discourse was applied and consequently led to shifted policy toward world nations and forming an auti-impenalist front and once again increased tension between two sides. Confronting with E.U. on issues such as terrorism and nuclear energy turned cold their mutual relations more than before.

Facing globalization phenomena needs to know it on the one hand, and to save our cultural identity, political independence and economical development against it, on the other hand. Therefore, it is necessary to make a comprehensive strategy to deal with globalization. This should include knowledge about its cultural, social, political and economical dimensions and its mutual influences.This strategy also requires a deep and wide study on the elements of national abilities and capacities and different influential fields confronting the matter.