Political Participation in Iran from Khatami to the Green Movement

di Paola Rivetti (Autore)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019

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.

• Autore: Paola Rivetti
• Editore: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Collana: Middle East Today
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 202 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• EAN: 9783030322007

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