Is Iran Democratizing? A Comparativist’s Perspective

Issue Date October 2000
Volume 11
Issue 4
Page Numbers 129-134
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The uneasy accommodation of competing visions of authority that has characterized Iran’s political system since 1979 is a familiar phenomenon in the Middle East and elsewhere.

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