Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization

ISBN-13: 9781009160919 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 313 str.

Kian Tajbakhsh

Opis

An innovative study of the political decentralization of Iran and the failure of elected local government to democratize the authoritarian regime.

Recenzje

'In this unusually revealing account of decentralization efforts in Iran, Tajbakhsh provides a deeply researched and often moving account of how contemporary politics in Iran actually works.' Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs

Spis treści

Preface; Overview; Part I. Launching Local Democracy: 1. Reshaping the state: political decentralization comes to Iran in the 1990s: 2. Launching municipal government, 1999-2003; Part II. Arguing for Local Democracy: 3. Reformists, local democracy and civil society: socio-political discourses; 4. Efficiency in governance: technocratic discourse; 5. The theocratic and Islamist discourse on the shura; Part III. Blocking Local Democracy: 6. The rocky path from elections to democracy; 7. City planning and the challenges of democractic governance; 8. Financing local democracy; 9. Geopolitics and the limits of international municipal cooperation; 10. What of the future of local democracy.