فهرست مطالب مهران عسکری

The aim of this study is to investigate the barriers to political development in Iran with emphasis on the lack of participation of academic elites (Case study: professors of Larestan universities). This work is a fundamental and applied research in terms of purpose. Regarding the data, this qualitative study was conducted by using the phenomenological method. In this research, information was collected through interviews. Using purposive sampling method and theoretical saturation technique, key informants (including 20 professors) were selected to identify barriers to political development. The tool used was a semi-structured interview. The data collected from the interviews were analyzed by content analysis method.Based on the results of content analysis in this piece of work, ten basic themes include: Cultural and educational failure, distortion of people's attitudes toward development, inadequate media information, employment and inefficient economic policies of governments, feelings of relative deprivation, weak capital Social, historical factors, weakness of civil society, and political factors were obtained. Finally, four organizing themes including cultural barriers (: Cultural and educational failure, distortion of individuals' attitudes toward political development and weakness of media information), Economic barriers (employment situation and inefficient economic policies of governments)and Social barriers (feelings of relative deprivation, weak social capital, and weak civil society) and structural barriers (historical and political factors)

The purpose of this study is to study the barriers to political development in Iran with emphasis on the non-participation of academic elites. The general design of this research is a combination of exploratory-sequential (qualitative-quantitative) strategy. In the qualitative part, content analysis method and in the quantitative part, descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency and percentage and t-test of one sample have been used. The scope of research and its statistical population includes professors of universities in Larestan region (Payam-e-Noor universities of evaz center, Payam-e-Noor of Lar branch, Islamic Azad of Larestan branch, Larestan medical sciences, Gerash medical sciences (N = 120).The qualitative part was performed using purposive sampling method and theoretical saturation technique (20 members) and the quantitative part was done by random selection of 90 faculty members of the mentioned universities. Data collection tools are semi-structured interviews and researcher-made questionnaires extracted from interviews in qualitative-quantitative stages, respectively. According to the results of content analysis in this study, ten basic themes were obtained: cultural and educational inadequacy, distorted attitudes toward political development, poor media information, employment status and inefficient economic policies of governments, feelings of relative deprivation, weak social capital, historical barriers. , The weakness of civil society and political factors, and finally, the four themes of organizing cultural barriers, economic barriers, social barriers and structural barriers were extracted.The results of the quantitative section show that cultural, economic, social and structural barriers are significantly away from the acceptable and desirable level of adequacy.