Analysis of the Effects of the Rentier State on Iran's Ruling System in Terms of Political Development: Ahmadinejad and Rouhani Administrations

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Professor of Political Science Department, Gilan University, Rasht, Iran.

2 Ph.D. student, Department of Political Science, Khoramshahr International Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khoramshahr, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.

Abstract

The current research aims at a comparative study of the rentier government in Ahmadinejad and Rouhani governments. From this point of view, qualitative research strategy and thematic matrix type have been used. Therefore, the research data has been used by using judgmental or targeted sampling method of related political texts through the process of thematic coding in order to discover and identify the basic, organized and comprehensive themes of the rentier government in both Ahmadinejad and Rouhani governments. Qualitative findings of the research have shown that the rentier government in Ahmadinejad and Rouhani governments consists of three overarching themes: a- lack of attention to civil society mechanisms, b- efficient government, c- lack of active private sector. In addition to the commonalities and differences of three overarching themes that were the benchmarks compared between the government of Rentier and the government of Ahmadinejad and Rouhani; have been compared and analyzed. The research method in this article is descriptive, and the method of collecting data and information is the library method, which has been extracted by referring to books, articles and other published written works.

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