Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD in Political Science from Political Science Department, Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

2 Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

4 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Administrative Sciences & Economics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

Social cohesion, as one of the indicators of good governance, has a direct relationship with society's resilience against of challenges, in such a way that its weakness causes the erosion of the country's capabilities. In this research, an attempt has been made to evaluate the level of social cohesion in Iran by combining the SWOT analytical model and the comparative method, and the question is answered that since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, what changes have the component of social cohesion undergone? The country of Iran (comparable case) is broken in the unit of time and since, from the point of view of some experts, Structural changes are the turning point of political and social developments in the direction of achieving development, social cohesion (unit of analysis) in two time periods before and after compared to the revision of the constitution. The result of comparing the institutional and environmental variables of social cohesion indicates that in Iran, after the revision of the constitution, the amount of social cohesion has decreased compared to the previous period.

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