TY  - BOOK
AU  - Azimi,Fakhreddin
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The quest for democracy in Iran: a century of struggle against authoritarian rule 
AV  - JQ1789.A15 A95 2008eb
U1  - 955.05 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Iran
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10314212
ER  -