Exploring Typology of Challenges to Fulfillment Cultural Policy Objectives In the Islamic Republic of Iran

Subject Areas : INTERCULTURAL STUDIES QUARTERLY

Abdulrahman Afshari ¹ , majid tavasoli ² , Saeid Sharifi ³

1 - Ph.D Student in Public Policy, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan)
2 - ........
3 - Department of Cultural Management, Faculty of Management, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan)

Received: 2018-06-08 Accepted : 2018-09-21 Published : 2018-11-22

Keywords: Islamic Republic of Iran, Government, cultural policy, Cultural Policymaking, Cultural Policy objectives,

Abstract :

 The purpose of this study was Exploring typology of challenges to fulfill Cultural policy objectives in Islamic Republic of Iran. The research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population consisted of all experts, with 396 individuals selected as sample size. Data gathering tool was researcher-made questionnaire with 40-item based on interviews with political and cultural expert. Cronbach's alpha was higher than 0.7 for all dimension; content validity was confirmed by CVR coefficient. To analyze the research data the AIC method was used as a cluster criterion evaluation. The results showed that with 13 stages of rotation three clusters (141 persons), (191 persons) and (64 persons) including 7 dimensions, lack of political consensus, lack of integrated management, political identity, political performance weakness, competing political strife, political insecurity and Political attitudes, became distinct. The first group considered the factors of political identity, the second group the weakness of political performance and the third group identified lack of political support as the most important obstacle to Realizing cultural policy objectives in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the identity-seeking group, component of reinforcement of Western identity components in policy making, in the performance-seeking group, top-down cultural policy, and in the group of support-seeking, the tendency to resist through rituals was identified as the most important barrier to realizing cultural policy objectives.  

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