Seyed Abbas Hoseini Davarani
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Iranian sentiments and the development and backwardness are the focus of the upcoming article. According to the general belief and what is generally believed and shown, especially in scientific products, the Iranian sentiments as an independent variable has negative characteristics that are always a ...
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Iranian sentiments and the development and backwardness are the focus of the upcoming article. According to the general belief and what is generally believed and shown, especially in scientific products, the Iranian sentiments as an independent variable has negative characteristics that are always a roadblock in the path of various types of development, and this has gone so far that it is recognized as an assumption. This is the fact that many assumption breaking elements can be presented. On this basis, the basic question of this research is that what the position between "Iranian sentiments" in the issue of "Development" is? To answer this question; we used a three-level model. The first level deals with the effects of sentiments on development. The second level uses 10 assumption-breaking items to pose question about Iranian sentiments as an independent variable, and the third level advances institutionalism as a level of integration, where Iranian sentiments are classified into the dependent variable of development. In the end, this article concludes that Iranian sentiments do not have an essential influence on the process of development, but there is a kind of connection between them that is influenced by the institutions, and this connection changes with the institutional changes.
Farshad Momeni; Ismail Aalizad; Vahid Mirebeigi
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For years researchers have associated the developmental problems of countries possessing natural resources like oil with the very fact of the possession of such resources. The numerous studies of this field have mostly focused on the theories of the Rentier State and the Resource Curse. Today, with the ...
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For years researchers have associated the developmental problems of countries possessing natural resources like oil with the very fact of the possession of such resources. The numerous studies of this field have mostly focused on the theories of the Rentier State and the Resource Curse. Today, with the advent of empirical research and theoretical criticism, there is little doubt with regards to the shortcomings of the classic theories of the field. The latest research has also attempted to mitigate the extremes of the classic theories of rentierism which usually cover a limited scope of the suggested outcomes of rentierism, and such theories have not formed a comprehensive and elaborate theory, nor have they presented an appropriate ideal type of the rentier state for historical investigations. The present paper presents a critical survey of the literature on rentierism, focusing on one main question: how can this theory be improved? With respect to this question, at first, rentierism literature will be reviewed, then the institutionalist theory of Douglass North shall be introduced. By recognizing the advantages and disadvantages of both theories, the present paper goes on to formulate new conceptual framework named the "Rentier Limited Access Order". Not only is this framework rooted in both theories, but it also goes beyond them and delivers new insights with which rentier states can be studied.
vahid naghdi
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This research is a comparative survey of harmonious development in South Asian countries. In this research, the role of four basic, top-level variables in the harmonious development of these countries is examined in four different social aspects. A fuzzy comparative analysis5 is used, andpaths to follow ...
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This research is a comparative survey of harmonious development in South Asian countries. In this research, the role of four basic, top-level variables in the harmonious development of these countries is examined in four different social aspects. A fuzzy comparative analysis5 is used, andpaths to follow and not to follow in the course of development are explored. Results of the study showed that the development process of these countries was affected by a mixed causal connection of the following four variables: economic freedom, weak government, cultural heterogeneity, and principled population. Based on the findings of the study, in the South Asian and comparable countries, economic freedom as a single factor does not lead to a harmonious development, and it requires certain circumstances alongside in order that the development will be harmonious. The findings indicate that a strong government and its measures operate as an independent variable with strong and efficient influences on the process of development. In case the government is weak and its performance inefficient, then other causal connections of the other three variables, i.e. cultural heterogeneity, economic freedom and, most particularly, a principled and orderly population, can bring about a harmonious development. Among the latter three variables, the role of a principled population is crucial and it is a necessary condition for attaining to a harmonious development.
