An Analysis of development legislation in Iran by using institutional grammar

The laws of the third, fourth and fifth development plans can be considered as the introduction and basis of the most effective development projects in the Pahlavi state. These laws were, indeed, the foundation of strategies that Pahlavi state legislated for advancing development projects and because of that, by studying them we can understand the essence of development plans and the way that government looked at development project. This article by using institutional grammar is going to extract institutional statements and analyze these laws in order to show the essence of these laws according to different aspects of institutional statement such as attribute, deontic, aim, conditions and or else. The findings of the research show that legislation of development plans, the government was placed in the center of the plans as the main factor. In none of the 111 existing institutional statements, non-governmental organizations are mentioned as attribute. Also in 108 statements, deontic has been used. It is worth considering that in deontics, obligation has been mentioned 81 times. This shows mandatory nature of the development plans. In addition, not mentioning any time and place condition in the condition part indicates the generality of development plans that ignore the biological, cultural and social diversity. And the most immediate consequence of such a look, is involving the state in different affairs, putting aside people’s potential forces and rejecting public participation.