The current study aims to investigate the behavioral patterns of the political elite and their consequences on Iran’s political stability. A plethora of researchers have studied the significant role of the political elite and have examined their behavioral patterns within societies which portrays its importance in the field of political sociology. To this end, the school of elitism has been coined by scholars in political sociology in order to consider this field as vital in sociology in the generic sense of the word. With regard to the elite performance in Iran, a large number of researchers such as Zonis have theorized a variety of concepts which have led to the identification of the political elite behavioral patterns in Iran before Islamic Republic of Iran’s revolution. In line with Zonis’ viewpoints, many other theorists, also, hold that the behavioral pattern of the elite, specifically their political behavior, share features with Higley and Burton’s disperse or disconsensus theory. In their model, they argue that there are some features for the behavioral patterns of the elite which have led to the non-stability and lack of political development in the developing countries such as Iran as history have showed us. In particular, such behavioral patterns in Iran have rooted deeply in Iranian political, cultural, and social patterns in a way that Iranian political society has been afflicted with a non-developmental disease both before and after the Islamic Republic of Iran’s revolution.
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