A Qualitative Comparative Comparison Between presidential Cultural Ideas and Cultural Policies of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, 1997-2013

Subject Areas : Political Developments in Iran

Seyed Ehssan Najmolhoda ¹ , Mohammad Reza Yazdani Zazerani ^{2 *} , Mehraban Hadipeykani ³

1 - Ph.D Student of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, Isf.C., Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Public Policy ,Department of Political Science, Isf.C., Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor of public management, Department of Management, Isf.C., Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2025-02-17 Accepted : 2025-08-09 Published : 2025-07-18

Keywords: Public Policy Making, Idea, Policy Change, Cultural Policy, Supreme Council for the Cultural Revolution, Qualitative Comparative Analysis ,

Abstract :

Understanding how public policies change has led to the emergence of various perspectives on the factors that underlie change in the policy process and its outcomes. In this field, attention to the idea factor has a long history, as with the formation of the idea-oriented trend, researchers explain changes in existing policies by applying ideas in the form of heuristics, strategic tools, and institutional frameworks. The present study, by examining ideas as an institutional framework, attempts to explain the importance of ideas in policy change in the policy-making environment of the Islamic Republic. To this end, a scale is made between the ideas that presidents have expressed for cultural policies at the beginning of their presidency and cultural policies that were approved by those ideas during their presidency. To make this comparison, recurring ideas in each period (secondary data) and content analysis of cultural policies approved by the Supreme Council for the Cultural Revolution during the two presidential terms of Mr. Khatami and Mr. Ahmadinejad are used, and qualitative comparative analysis will be used for the final comparison. The research findings indicate that in each presidential term, at least half of the recurring ideas have been transformed into cultural policies, and for some ideas, several policies have been adopted.

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