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This paper is a comparative study of the level of attention of the Iranian members of parliament (MPs) to the 38 indexes of social welfare during the fourth (1369-1373) and sixth (1379-1383) Majlises. The method of this study was content analysis. The data for the analysis was gathered from 92 speeches by MPs, randomly selected from their addresses to the Majlis, The findings show little attention paid to social welfare issues, such as rising inflation, employment levels, provision of personal and social hygiene facilities, immigration trends, and the availability of infrastructural services to individuals and the social groups, by the MPs of both Majlises. Some differences observed in the attention of MPs to cultural clashes, social security, power-distribution mechanism and the level of personal liberties can be attributed to the differences inMPs political inclination and factions in the two terms of the parliament.
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