Libro Political Participation in Iran From Khatami to the Green Movement (Middle East Today) De Paola Rivetti

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Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Palgrave Macmillan

Autor

Paola Rivetti

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

202

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9783030322007

N° edición

Categorías

Las políticas del gobierno central

Political Participation in Iran From Khatami to the Green Movement (Middle East Today)

Paola Rivetti (Autor) · Palgrave Macmillan · Tapa Dura

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This book examines the unintended consequences of top-down reforms in Iran, analysing how the Iranian reformist governments (1997–2005) sought to utilise gradual reforms to control independent activism, and how citizens responded to such a disciplinary action. While the governments successfully ‘set the field’ of permitted political participation, part of the civil society that took shape was unexpectedly independent. Despite being a minority, independent activists were not marginal: without them, in fact, the Green Movement of 2009 would not have taken shape. Building on in-depth empirical analysis, the author explains how autonomous activism forms and survives in a semi-authoritarian country. The book contributes to the debate about the implications of elite-led reforms for social reproduction, offering an innovative interpretation and an original analysis of social movements from a political science perspective.