Rentier State, State Run Economy, Political Culture and Social Capital in Iran (1989-2005) (Text in Persian)

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Mohammad Hossein Hossein Panahi ¹ , Ashraf Amini ²

1 - ([e-mail]). استاد و عضو هیأت علمی گروه علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی تهرا
2 - ([e-mail]) . کارشناس ارشد مطالعات زنان دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی ته

Received: 2011-06-01 Accepted : 2011-09-12 Published : 2011-12-01

Keywords: Social Capital, Rentier state, state run economy, patrimonial political culture, seeking rent,

Abstract :

Most of the countries which possess natural resources have revenue separate from taxes from the people and due to this revenue rent seeking and corruption is more prevalent than other countries. It seems that huge revenue earned from export of natural resources has increased the tendency of influential people to exploit these resources to their benefit and as a result they are creating a network of supporter-follower to seek rent. With the discovery of oil and turning into the main source of government revenue، the structure of the economy got a rentier shape and the state run economy along with concentration of revenue continued in a new form. The present article by a descriptive analytical method is trying to find the relation of oil rent with state run economy and its impact on political culture and social capital between 1989 and 2005(1368-1384 Iranian years). The finding of the study shows that oil rent has led to state capitalism and this has developed the political culture of supporter-follower and as a result weakened the social capital.