Kian Tajbakhsh

Creating Local Democracy in Iran

State Building and the Politics of Decentralization

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Produktbeschreibung

Empirically rich and theoretically informed, this book is an innovative analysis of how local government in Iran's cities and towns undermines democratization and consolidates the Islamist electoral authoritarian regime. It uses original data to deepen our understandings of comparative politics, economic development, and democratization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 313
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9781009160919
• ISBN-10: 1009160915
• Artikelnr.: 63397534

Autorenporträt

Kian Tajbakhsh is Fellow in the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, where he was Professor of Urban Planning and Urban Studies. He previously directed civil society strengthening initiatives for the Soros Foundation in Iran, where he was a political prisoner from 2009-2016. He has previously published The Promise of the City (2001) and Social Capital: Trust, Democracy and Development (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

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.