nesa z; Ebrahim Sarparst Sadat; s a
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Turkey's constitutional referendum is a recent era of internal developments in Turkey. With the fragile victory of the Justice and Development Party on April 16, 2017, the study of this referendum and developments regarding the future of democracy in the country can be considered a matter worthy of further ...
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Turkey's constitutional referendum is a recent era of internal developments in Turkey. With the fragile victory of the Justice and Development Party on April 16, 2017, the study of this referendum and developments regarding the future of democracy in the country can be considered a matter worthy of further study. In this paper, the paper attempts to analyze the constitutional referendum of Turkey by using the theory of elite circulation as a theoretical framework. In this regard, the central question of the article is how does the referendum on the Turkish constitution affect the future of democracy and political stability in Turkey? This paper, based on descriptive and analytical documents, has strengthened the hypothesis that the recent constitution referendum of Turkey has undermined the future of the political system based on the circulation of the elites of the country, and it leads to mediation that competitive environment will be limited to other non-government elites, such as opposition parties, and the future of political stability and democracy in this country will be more fragile than the past, as well as the future of Turkish political and social security, more shaky than before.
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After World War II, world order was based on two basic principles of thought and value and a practical basis (military and political). The first was the claim of the supremacy and value of the West and its consolidation on other nations. The second point was the issue of political and military capabilities. ...
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After World War II, world order was based on two basic principles of thought and value and a practical basis (military and political). The first was the claim of the supremacy and value of the West and its consolidation on other nations. The second point was the issue of political and military capabilities. If nations or governments were not affected by that system of value and thought and did not surrender, they were forced to accompany by political and military pressures.Both factors are changing today; the most important reason is the intellectual and practical conflicts of the domination system.
This research focuses on the views of the Iranian leader about the system of domination and its conflicts, the main question is: What are the conflicts of domination system in international relations in practical termswith the theoretical field, in the discourse of Ayatollah Khamenei? "Results of the study indicate the contradictions of the dominant system in theory and practiceon issues like human rights, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and democracy. In discourse of Iranian leader, these contradictions revealed the vulnerability of the domination systemand it will facilitate the process of collapse.
mojtaba shariati; Hosein Salimi
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The Middle East is changing. More actors and factors also influenced its changes, which has added to the complexity of the issues.These undetermined and vague conditions have led to different scenarios, which could figure out the future of the Islamic countries and the Middle East in general. So in this ...
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The Middle East is changing. More actors and factors also influenced its changes, which has added to the complexity of the issues.These undetermined and vague conditions have led to different scenarios, which could figure out the future of the Islamic countries and the Middle East in general. So in this article, this main question is answered, future trends of democracy in the Middle East by 2025, will have what effects on the national interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran?.In response to the main question, by reviewing the future study of future trends of democracy in the Middle East, a questionnaire was designed within the framework of the theory of constructivism and Delphi method, and was distributed among of experts and specialists. Then, by guiding with leadership team, the Delphi questionnaire data were analyzed. Then the results and opinions of the experts and respondents to the questions were analyzed qualitatively and four main scenarios were obtained which includes the rule of religious democracy, secularism, Salafism and the military, autocratic monarchy and ethnic governments.Finally, the most favorable scenario and the most threatening scenario for the national interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran were detected and solutions presented.
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One of the the most important issues in middle east and contemporary turkey is the study of stability and threat factors of democracy. Among the other countries of middle east, turkey has long-term experience in democracy. A glance to the country show turkey s democracy has fluctuating matter. In the ...
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One of the the most important issues in middle east and contemporary turkey is the study of stability and threat factors of democracy. Among the other countries of middle east, turkey has long-term experience in democracy. A glance to the country show turkey s democracy has fluctuating matter. In the other words, democracy in turkey as a form of government and a kind of relations between society and the government have face threat and stability factors simultaneously. The main goal of the article is evaluating causes of the issue. the article argues some variables such as turkey s constitution amendments, party system and trying to accession to EU (stability variables) and ethnic threats, religious minorities challenges and the military interventions (threat stability) have influenced turkey s democracy. to evaluate the hypothesis, the article has some sections such as theoretical framework with emphasis on stability and threat factors, historical approach to democracy trends in turkey and evaluation of threat-stability variables in turkey’s democracy.
Seyed Ebrahim Sarparst Sadat
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With the victory of the Islamic Revolution and establishment of a religious
democracy in Iran, the question about compatibility of Islam and democracy has
become a fundamental issue. This article aims to answer whether it is possible to
locate origins of the theory of religious democracy in pre-Revolutionary ...
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With the victory of the Islamic Revolution and establishment of a religious
democracy in Iran, the question about compatibility of Islam and democracy has
become a fundamental issue. This article aims to answer whether it is possible to
locate origins of the theory of religious democracy in pre-Revolutionary Islamic
thinkers. The hypothesis of the article is that it is possible to find a pattern for
religious democracy in the thought of the religious scholars such as Morteza
Motahhari, which served as a pioneer for theoretical debates in this field. The
article uses the current-discourse method to obtain Motahhari’s views about
democracy and its relation with religious democracy and its established form in
the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Mohammad Hossein Panahi; Somayyeh Shalchi
Volume 4, Issue 13 , October 2015, , Pages 95-118
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This study has investigated the effects of social factors on tendency towards democracy. Data for this analysis were collected from a sample of 643 citizens of Tehran aged 20 years and older. The theoretical framework was formulated using theories of Bourdiou, Inglehart, Habermas and Giddens. Social ...
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This study has investigated the effects of social factors on tendency towards democracy. Data for this analysis were collected from a sample of 643 citizens of Tehran aged 20 years and older. The theoretical framework was formulated using theories of Bourdiou, Inglehart, Habermas and Giddens. Social factors included social class, cultural capital, media usage, and religiosity. Descriptive findings reveal that majority of the Tehrani citizens have low tendency towards democracy. Only 4 percent of them have high level of tendency towards democracy. These citizens were more democratic in their attitudes than in their conducts. Explanatory findings show that there is significant relation among various dimensions of social class (i.e., cultural capital, economic capital and social status) with the tendency towards democracy. In addition, there is also significant correlation between cultural factors (i.e., social tolerance, social participation, democratic attitudes towards family) with the tendency towards democracy. Findings demonstrated that cultural capital was the most significant predictor of the dependent variable
