Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Part I - Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change -- Introduction -- Structure of the book -- Sources -- 1. Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Theoretical Context -- Iran, Islam and the 'secularisation thesis' -- Civil society and democratic development -- 2. The Politics of Managing Change -- A contested inheritance -- The roots of democratic development -- The constitutional period, 1906-1921 -- Reza Shah and the Pahlavi autocracy -- The interregnum, 1941-1953 -- The restoration of autocracy, 1953-1979 -- 3. Revolution, Republic and War -- The dialectics of the 'collective will' -- The limits of 'charisma' -- Competing movements -- Religious nationalism -- An unorthodox legacy -- The ideological dimensions of power -- Causes of authoritarian domination -- The war -- 4. Rafsanjani and the Ascendancy of the Mercantile Bourgeoisie -- The roots and development of the 'mercantile bourgeois republic' -- Developments in intellectual life -- The intellectual revitalisation of the myth of political emancipation -- The theoretical foundations of an Islamic democracy -- Social responses to the bourgeois republic -- 5. The Failure of the Mercantile Bourgeois Republic and the Election of Khatami -- Parties and personalities -- The election campaign -- The election of 2 Khordad -- 6. Contested Hegemonies and the Institutionalisation of Power -- The reformist worldview -- Policies -- Agents of change (1): students -- Agents of change (2): the press -- Agents of obstruction -- A new beginning -- The foreign policy of reintegration -- 7. The Dialectics of Reform -- The politics of managing change -- The parameters of 'civil society' -- Constitutionalism and historical appropriation -- Reform and reaction -- The politics of economic reform.