Tribalism: A sociological explanation from political participation in Chahar Maham and Bakhtiari province (Emphacised on Islamic council assembly elections)

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MOHAMAD NOUZARI ¹ (vezart keshvar)
Bashir Esmaeili ² (Academic staff of Reza University of Isfahan)
Masoud Parsley Race ³ (Faculty of Islamic Azad University, Shahreza Branch)

Received: 2019-05-08 Accepted : 2019-07-13 Published : 2019-06-22

Keywords: political participation, elections, tribe, Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari province, party – spirit,

Abstract :

All human society do experience many political units that their participiant forms, ways and instruments was diffirent. Now, the form of nation – state is accepted one, more or less, formally it’s criteria are hold by societies. But, in Iran that always have experience of tribal sovereignty, kind and method of political participation is on transitional stage, and still their actors couldn’t passage from tribal spirit to party system. This spirit have a special appearance in tribal province, as Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari. Then, the problem of this article is explanation the relation between tribal spirit and political participation in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari province. The method that be used in this research is mixture of geodistic and theoretical. Thus, by reliance on field and theoretical method, we gathered the data, meantime study the theoretical foundation on the elections deal with kind of political participation, and the role of tribal identity and study the people electoral behavier in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari province in the Islamic council assembly on the differ periods. This study conclude that there are relation between political participation and tribal spirit in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari province. Results also show their political participation not diffirent in terms of tribe and education.