JOSTARHA-YE SIYASI-YE MOASER
Year:2017 | Volume:8 | Issue:2 |Papers Count:6

Good Governnaace Theory has attracted the attention of many communities since 1990s as the favorable development and management pattern. Despite the introduction of this theory in Iran and the correspondence of its main indices with Iranian belief and legal bases, rarely a serious movement has emerged to fulfil good governance in Iran. Though this matter is related to politics, there are some obstacles to execute it in the state and political system. Through reviewing previous studies with documentary method, this article shows that the main challenge of good governance in Iran is that it deals with applicable political culture, so that for each good governance index there are political culture indices that prevents the fulfilment of those indices. For removing these obstacles, more attention should be paid to political culture and practical measuresshould be taken with the focus on the role of thestate to reform political culture.

Iranian Lifestyle has always been critically reviewed by the political and cultural experts, Despite remarkable changes in Iranian lifestyle, especially after the Islamic Revolution, a wide range of scholars believe that this issue still needs a lot of changes and transformations in order to achieve a modern organized and developed society and status in all areas.Now the main question of this research is what are the main requirements of Iranian lifestyle to achieve 1404 vision program? A Through survey research, 49 questionnaires with 27 questions was distributed among PhD and M.A students Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran as an expert panel. The questionnaire was a close ended questions, 23 of the questions were close questions in the form of LIKERT scale. SPSS software was used to analyze the close questions and one sample t test was used for analysis of datas. The literature review is divided into two sections; the research related to two components of life style and development, analysis of the most important research indicators and Iranian.

Political elites are one of the affecting factors in any political system. Islamic Consultative Assembly includes the Islamic Republic’s political elites. Therefore, the present study tries to analyze the political and social contexture of the people’s representatives during the first five-periods of Islamic Consultative Assembly with an analytical-comparative approach in order to realize the reasons and causes of the political movements in Iran. Moreover, it answers to these essential questions that what political and social combination have the people’s representatives had during first to fifth periods of Islamic Consultative Assembly? Furthermore, fundamentally, what are the differences and similarities between the aforementioned periods from the viewpoint of political and social contexture? To answer to these questions, in addition to introducing a description of the political contexture of representatives in these periods and their political and sectarian dependency, the representatives of five periods of Islamic Consultative Assembly are studied from the viewpoints of age, sexual and educational distribution and representation experience. The results of this research can facilitate the analysis of the reasons and causes of the political movements in Iran in addition to clarifying the trends of political and social developments in the determined historical section.

Political legitimacy is the sine qua non of governing in the contemporary world. In the absence of legitimacy, brute force alone will be the sole means of sustaining a government. Given the large size of the youth in the population structure of Iran, measuring legitimacy in the attitudes of the members of the third generation of the Revolution gains particular importance. In this study, based on a secondary analysis of the data collected in four national surveys, we attempted to measure the changes in youth attitudes towards legitimacy of the political system. Items in the instruments of the surveys that measured legitimacy were drawn out and made commensurable before being used to illustrate the trend that existed from 2001 to 2011. To better tap all aspects of the concept "legitimacy," we divided it into its two essential components, namely "legality" and "justifiability," and then drew upon items that represented these categories in the surveys on four different times during the study period. In this vein, the changes in youth attitudes toward legitimacy of the political system were identified. Study results indicate that in the first half of the period under study, a rising trend is observed. However, in he second half of the period, perceptions of legitimacy seem to show a decreasing trend. At the end, the more salient factors responsible for the drop in legitimacy are identified.

This study aimed to compare the Imam Khomeini's foreign policy doctrine with theoretical approach derived from normative and critical theory of international relations. comparative study in field of methodological, epistemological and ontological principles of any of these theories, leading to the formation of a conceptual framework towards study of foreign policy, which named here, "critical normative approach" and accordingly it make possible to analyze and understand foreign policy doctrine of Imam Khomeini (RA). Findings of this study suggest that despite the differences in theoretical foundations, both of these approaches are common in the pathological and prescriptive dimensions; both approaches regard the existing international system as unjust, under the influence of the will of the hegemonic powers, and this Emphasizes the necessity of human liberation from the constraints of the structures of the domination system, as well as the redefinition and redevelopment of its concepts and structures, and are seeking to stablish a just and normative international system; however, the main difference between Imam Khomeini's foreign policy thinking is rely on his emphasis on divine dimension of all Creation, as well as having a foundational and religious approach to its phenomena.

Islamic Republic of Iran as a political system has been -despite every threat from whether inside or outside- capable to get intact by applying a theory of religious democracy as an alternative to the hegemonic Western liberal democracy. As a main question the article is to ask about the reasons and causes by which one is competent to explain continuity in the political life of Islamic Republic of Iran. In order to answer this question the article hypothesizes that the soft power of Islamic Republic as an integral to the Realist-pragmatist security strategy of Iran has been essential to perseverance and stability of the government in an international sphere., a promotion in the soft power of Islamic Republic makes it possible for the Islamic Revolution ideals to proliferate. This soft power, backed by a theory of religious democracy, is based on an objective penetration into the actor's behaviors regardless of causing any threat or a significant cost either whereas the Islamic values are maintained. Nations in this scheme are defined as a strategic depth imperative characterized by cultureless and independence polity. This strategic doctrine has emerged particularly in the ideas theorized by Imam Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei as well. Based on an interpretation of the soft power theory by Josef Nye, this article investigates the very hypothesis. The research method in this paper is based on analytic and descriptive.