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A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran
Kevan Harris
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Description for A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran
Paperback. For decades, political observers and pundits have characterized the Islamic Republic of Iran as an ideologically rigid state on the verge of collapse, exclusively connected to a narrow social base. In this book, the author demonstrates how they are wrong. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 b/w photos, 13 charts, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBN; JHB; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
For decades, political observers and pundits have characterized the Islamic Republic of Iran as an ideologically rigid state on the verge of collapse, exclusively connected to a narrow social base. In A Social Revolution, Kevan Harris convincingly demonstrates how they are wrong. Previous studies ignore the forceful consequences of three decades of social change following the 1979 revolution. Today, more people in the country are connected to welfare and social policy institutions than to any other form of state organization. In fact, much of Iran's current political turbulence is the result of the success of these social welfare programs, which have created newly educated and mobilized social classes advocating for change. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in Iran, Harris shows how the revolutionary regime endured through the expansion of health, education, and aid programs that have both embedded the state in everyday life and empowered its challengers. This focus on the social policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran opens a new line of inquiry into the study of welfare states in countries where they are often overlooked or ignored.
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520280823
SKU
V9780520280823
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99-19
About Kevan Harris
Kevan Harris is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reviews for A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran
A Social Revolution shows that the Islamic Republic relied on welfare provision as the main source of state making, and this is a remarkable finding. I contend that this book is a must read for students of welfare studies, the Middle East, and social movements.
American Journal of Sociology
Harris offers a first-rate book on Iran
CHOICE
A Social Revolution acts as a much-needed corrective to a lot of the academic and policy literature on contemporary Iran.
The Middle East Journal
Kevan Harris has stepped forward with a reasoned and well-researched presentation of the theocracy as a traditional welfare state.
Survival: Global Politics and Strategy
A Social Revolution acts as a much-needed corrective to a lot of the academic and policy literature on contemporary Iran, which tends to view the country's political and social geography in binary terms: namely, a top-heavy, ideological, and oppressive state versus a resistant, cosmopolitan society.
The Middle East Journal
This empirically rich study draws on Harris' extensive fieldwork in Iran and uses welfare policy as a prism through which to view the country's transition from the shah's dictatorship to the now nearly 40-year-old theocracy of the Islamic Republic. . . . If Harris is correct, the Islamic Republic contains the seeds of its own transformation.
John Waterbury
Foreign Affairs
Harris literally wrote the book on politics and welfare in Iran.
Foreign Policy
American Journal of Sociology
Harris offers a first-rate book on Iran
CHOICE
A Social Revolution acts as a much-needed corrective to a lot of the academic and policy literature on contemporary Iran.
The Middle East Journal
Kevan Harris has stepped forward with a reasoned and well-researched presentation of the theocracy as a traditional welfare state.
Survival: Global Politics and Strategy
A Social Revolution acts as a much-needed corrective to a lot of the academic and policy literature on contemporary Iran, which tends to view the country's political and social geography in binary terms: namely, a top-heavy, ideological, and oppressive state versus a resistant, cosmopolitan society.
The Middle East Journal
This empirically rich study draws on Harris' extensive fieldwork in Iran and uses welfare policy as a prism through which to view the country's transition from the shah's dictatorship to the now nearly 40-year-old theocracy of the Islamic Republic. . . . If Harris is correct, the Islamic Republic contains the seeds of its own transformation.
John Waterbury
Foreign Affairs
Harris literally wrote the book on politics and welfare in Iran.
Foreign Policy