Open AccessPolitical Development Concept by Looking Briefly at the Iran’s Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Rule
Author(s) -
Maryam Karimi,
Sarjit Singh Darshan Singh
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of public administration and governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2161-7104
DOI - 10.5296/jpag.v4i4.6627
Subject(s) - politics , political science , development (topology) , political process , american political science , epistemology , political economy , sociology , law , philosophy , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Concept of political development such as other concepts of political science has a lack of consensus among researchers and scholars. This article is going to review the concept of political development. It begins with an overview on definitions of political development. Presumably, it presents different aspects and characteristics of political development. This article establishes Iran’s efforts towards political development during Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Rule. Moreover, this article concludes that process of political development in Iran was affected by two main theories of political development by some western and Iranian political thinker’s definition on this concept.