Mehdi Kaveh; Mansour Tabiee; Mahmood Shahabi; Habib Ahmadi
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Considering the close relationship between social policy making and political field, it’s attempted to analyze forming of social policies related to social harms during the revolution as a turning point in political developments with a view to Foucault's theory of governance. In order to objectify ...
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Considering the close relationship between social policy making and political field, it’s attempted to analyze forming of social policies related to social harms during the revolution as a turning point in political developments with a view to Foucault's theory of governance. In order to objectify the methodological steps, thematic analyses were used. Also in order to answer the research questions, the required data were used as non-reactive criteria and theoretical sampling method was used to select the samples. According to the prevailing social and political conditions, a revolutionary discourse that elaborates on the synchronization of moments of guilt / crime / harm, the dominance of the legal approach and judicial intervention, moral cleansing, protectionist policy-making and coping with disability. It made sense to dominate the sphere of social harm policy-making at the beginning of the revolution. In the discourse of this period, the social dimension of social harm policy-making in favor of the legal dimension was less considered. But the point to consider during the hegemony of policies was their social acceptance. It is necessary to pay serious attention to the issue of social acceptance, because social acceptance of any policy guarantees the success of that policy.
Masoomeh Qarakhani
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Masoumeh Qarakhani Date of Receive: 2013/10/9Date of Accept: 2014/2/9AbstractWhile paving the way for access to university education, the higher education institution pursues some social policies with the aim of securing welfare services for interested groups such as students, managers, university office ...
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Masoumeh Qarakhani Date of Receive: 2013/10/9Date of Accept: 2014/2/9AbstractWhile paving the way for access to university education, the higher education institution pursues some social policies with the aim of securing welfare services for interested groups such as students, managers, university office workers and faculty members. The present research deals with the study and analysis of documents (laws, bylaws and decrees) as the legal input of social policies. These are related to securing welfare for faculty members of public universities in Iran during 1981-2011. Using qualitative method and content analysis technique, welfare policies for faculty members in this period have been represented under the two concepts of “occupational well-being policies” and “promotional and job security policies”, and the process and procedure of these policies have been recognized. Apart from some “predictive policies”, which are based on Faculty Member Employment Bylaw and mainly concerned with occupational welfare services and promotion policies, other policies especially welfare policies in the framework of programs of Welfare and Organization and Fund for Faculty Members Support, have a “reactive” characteristic. This means that in spite of the enforcement of some welfare policies, the policymakers and even official executives have no clear and comprehensive understanding of the concept of welfare concerning faculty members in Iran. In the light of such an incoherent perception, some social welfare policies have been neglected by policymaker, and the enforcement of the existing half-done policies, due to political and economic policies and also governments’ approaches to the welfare of faculty members, has been affected by the tastes of policymakers and official executives.
Masoomeh Qarakhani
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Health policy is an aspect of social policy, and its development is considered a responsibility of governments. This policy, which is related to personal and social welfare, can be affected by the orientations and approaches taken by governments. However, there is no precise understanding of the orientation ...
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Health policy is an aspect of social policy, and its development is considered a responsibility of governments. This policy, which is related to personal and social welfare, can be affected by the orientations and approaches taken by governments. However, there is no precise understanding of the orientation of different Iranian governments regarding health policy. In the present paper, we attempted to understand the effect of the approaches of governments on health policy in Iran. Therefore, we studied health policy from two aspects of law input and health expenditure in four Iranian governments from 1981 to 2009. The data were analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative methods as well as qualitative content analysis and variance analysis methods. The results showed that the health policy was not considerably affected by the political approaches taken by the governments. In terms of health expenditure, too, the governments did not affect the health policy.
