The quest for democracy in Iran [electronic resource] : a century of struggle against authoritarian rule /
Azimi, Fakhreddin.
The quest for democracy in Iran a century of struggle against authoritarian rule / [electronic resource] : Fakhreddin Azimi. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008. - xiv, 492 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-479) and index.
Prologue : in search of a national covenant -- Constituting a national community (1906-1953). Constitutional trial and error -- Pahlavist absolutism -- Restoration of parliamentary politics -- Authoritarian supremacy : consolidation and collapse (1953-1979). The trajectories of monarchism -- Revolution : chronicle of an implosion -- The edifice and emplacements of royal rule -- Elective affinities : western imperial interests and authoritarian monarchy -- The architecture of royalist hegemony -- A culture of confrontation -- The eclipse of popular sovereignty : Iran since 1979. The unfolding of clerical rule : oligarchy by divine right? -- The culture of politics : the presence and absence of the past -- Predicaments and prospects -- Epilogue : the resilience of modernity.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA819753 bnb
Uk
Democracy--Iran.
Iran--Politics and government--20th century.
Electronic books.
JQ1789.A15 / A95 2008eb
955.05
The quest for democracy in Iran a century of struggle against authoritarian rule / [electronic resource] : Fakhreddin Azimi. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008. - xiv, 492 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 455-479) and index.
Prologue : in search of a national covenant -- Constituting a national community (1906-1953). Constitutional trial and error -- Pahlavist absolutism -- Restoration of parliamentary politics -- Authoritarian supremacy : consolidation and collapse (1953-1979). The trajectories of monarchism -- Revolution : chronicle of an implosion -- The edifice and emplacements of royal rule -- Elective affinities : western imperial interests and authoritarian monarchy -- The architecture of royalist hegemony -- A culture of confrontation -- The eclipse of popular sovereignty : Iran since 1979. The unfolding of clerical rule : oligarchy by divine right? -- The culture of politics : the presence and absence of the past -- Predicaments and prospects -- Epilogue : the resilience of modernity.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA819753 bnb
Uk
Democracy--Iran.
Iran--Politics and government--20th century.
Electronic books.
JQ1789.A15 / A95 2008eb
955.05