Pathology of Relation between Political culture and Political Development in Iran
Subject Areas :Mohammad Abolfathi 1 , Mohammad Karim Mohammadi 2
1 - Assistant Prof. at Razi University of Kermanshah
2 - Ph.D. Student of Political Sociology at Razi University of Kermanshah
Keywords: political development, Political Culture, Authority Pattern, Participation pattern, Experience of Party Formation,
Abstract :
The glourios Islamic revolution in Iran is a great change throughout the history of Iran and it has brought with itself enormous achievements which are not comparable with the past era. Although there are some improvements regarding political development in comparation with the past era, but these improvement are far from the ideal situation of an Islamic system. Influence of political culture on political development? A culture approach is used to answer this question .Thus a hypothesis has been tested which counts political culture as the major factor in prevention of realization of political development. For this purpose and regarding different study approaches, the most improvement elements of political culture are extracted. Based on these elements it is shown that the former cultural situation continues to its existence and this culture has a wide gap with civil culture which is the best culture for a democratic system. Therefore political culture of Iran has not provided a ground for political development and is a major obstacle in this regard. A comprtion between political culture and authority pattern, participation pattern, party formation and interaction with foreigners proves this argument. Therefore development in Iran needs cultural preparation.
