Charismatic political authority and populist economics in post-revolutionary Iran

Saeidi, A A

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“…The Revolution's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, repeatedly declared that the Revolution belonged to the disinherited (mostazafan) and the barefooted (paberehnegan), and promised large scale redistribution of income and wealth [8,31]. 3 Has the Revolution really failed to deliver on its promises to the poor, as these claims suggest?…”

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Poverty, inequality, and populist politics in Iran

Salehi‐Isfahani

2008

J Econ Inequal

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Poverty, inequality, and populist politics in Iran

Salehi‐Isfahani

2008

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“…Although Weber neither views all charismatic authorities as revolutionary, nor assumes that all revolutions are charismatically based, he did believe that most contemporary revolutions were charismatically strong. As the most common means through which conventional legal regimes are overthrown, charismatic authority is of particularly high revolutionary potential (Saeidi, 2001). As stated earlier, this type of authority is based upon the extraordinary characteristics of its leader; whereby what matters most is the level of devotion the followers have for their leader's charisma.…”

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The Iranian Revolution of 1979: Confronting Theories of Revolution and Charisma

Khelghat‐Doost¹

2020

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Contrary to the economic, political or cultural elements necessary for a revolution as described in conventional theories of revolution by scholars such as Skocpol and Marx, the Iranian Revolution occurred in 1979. It is argued that essential reasons for the occurrence of a revolution include defeat at war, peasant rebellion, gigantic national debt or disgruntled military. Absence of these reasons made the Iranian of 1979 a shock to the world. This paper therefore seeks to provide answer to the key question of why the Iranian revolution was a surprise to all existing theories of revolution? To do so, this paper critically examines Marx's and Skocpol's theories of revolution with regard to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and discusses the shortcomings of these theories in explaining the Iranian Revolution. The paper will also argue why the Iranian revolution cannot fit the above-mentioned theories. This paper will also examine Max Weber's notion of charisma in relation to Ayatollah Khomeini -the leader of the Iranian Revolution.

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“…Sob o falso pretexto da "tradição", uma ditadura militar convencional, baseada no controle das mais modernas instituições políticas, numa burocracia centralizada e nas Forças Armadas, saqueou o país (Silverstein, 1977;Chirot, 1994). A República Islâmica do Irã pode ser outro exemplo: com o pretexto da religião e tradição acoberta-se um autorita-rismo carismático baseado na combinação de mobilização das massas, coerção física e ideológica, políticas econômi-cas populistas, e o comprometimento de diversos elementos dessa sociedade (Dabashi, 2000;Saeidi, 2001).…”

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Progresso e mimesis: ideias políticas, imitação e desenvolvimento

Chisholm¹

2009

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As recentes dificuldades de constituir governos estáveis e efetivos no Afeganistão e no Iraque após o inquestionável triunfo dos Estados Unidos no campo de batalha têm realçado uma importante lição de política: o maior problema no estabelecimento de um regime político é garantir a base de autoridade. A experiência de descolonização do segundo pós-guerra, as transições do autoritarismo dos anos 1970 e 1980, e o colapso da experiência soviética nos 1990 revelaram, ou deveriam ter revelado que, para Estados em processo de transição estrutural de um regime para outro, o problema da autoridade é agravado em razão de que instituições devem ser criadas, e a legitimidade deve ser criada ou resgatada. A ciência política comparada vinha ignorando o papel central que ideias e modelos políticos têm na criação e no desenvolvimento de instituições. Durante os períodos de domínio do behaviorismo e do estruturalismo na ciência política, as ideias não foram aceitas como * Artigo originalmente publicado na

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Charismatic political authority and populist economics in post-revolutionary Iran

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

Poverty, inequality, and populist politics in Iran

Poverty, inequality, and populist politics in Iran

The Iranian Revolution of 1979: Confronting Theories of Revolution and Charisma

Progresso e mimesis: ideias políticas, imitação e desenvolvimento

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