جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « Rentier economy » در نشریات گروه « علوم سیاسی »

In any country, development syndromes are tantamount to a repetitive challenging set in the economic policy. Development syndromes mean that the political economy of a country is facing unsolved challenges. The development crisis came with its own specific syndromes, creating challenges for the economy, politics and social structure of countries. Iran, too, has been faced with unsolved strategic issues which are referred to as economic development policy syndromes.The main question raised by the present article is, “What are the characteristics of the syndromes of the Iranian economic development policy, and under what circumstances do they emerge and expand?” The hypothesis put forth by this paper is “The syndromes of the Iranian economic development policy demonstrate social, economic, political and structural symptoms, and emerge and expand under the influence of a rentier state, growth-oriented economy and limited access political order.” The approach adopted is writing this paper is “challenges of a development-oriented government”. The research methodology used in this paper is based on data and process analysis.

Rentier economies, as a kind of economy which is highly dependent to foreign sources of income, have features that distinguish them from other economic structures and make them easier target for various sanction pressures. Iran's oil-rent-based economy has experienced many types of sanctions during four decades after Islamic Revolution for various reasons, including the conflicts with the United States and the nuclear dispute. The sanctions which have been trend to smart process in geographical, monitoring, regulatory, and thematic forms to be more effective. So what will be consider in this article is; Does Iran's rentier economy has made smart sanctions more effective? Based on this, it is assumed that the rent structure of Iran's economy has played an effective and key role in the intelligence and effectiveness of sanctions. To test this hypothesis, while examining the rent indicators of the country's economy and the smart sanctions proceeding, the effects and reactions of these two variables are evaluated by using a descriptive-analytical method.

By advent of modernism and increase in global demand for raw materials, governments owning huge natural resources assumed themselves as the possessor of power, property and supposed the other countries as economic-dependent. They have gained a part or all of their national income by selling their internal resources. On one hand, this matter led to lack of industrial growth and development and staying away from their production-driven economy and on the other hand, it led to colonialism and exploitation of these countries by powerful countries. In political and economic literature, these countries are named rentier states. Although great revenue obtained from selling natural resources and reservoirs provided the causes of economic welfare in these countries. Some of them were not able to achieve economic welfare and progress by relying on interactions with other countries, and they have merely spent the income gained by natural resource sale for daily uses, and consequently, this issue led to their lack of development. This paper makes attempt to investigate this duality by getting help from statistics and economic information about development and explains that how rentier economy can lead to mustiness and lack of promotion in some countries and act as a factor of growth and development in another country.

In this article, the negative aspects of an oil-dependent economy and the opportunities that the tourism industry can open up for the Islamic Republic of Iran have been discussed, and the implications of this issue for the country's national security have been reviewed. This research assumes that profits from Iran's tourism industry can be a suitable alternative to oil revenues and help the country move toward sustainable development, which is one of the main requirements of sustainable national security.

Policy making is a process that is particular nature and special form in different countries. The nature of policy making system depends on political, economic, social and cultural features. Success or failure of the policy making system in achieving its goal will determine within a cycle of the above factors. In this paper, our main question is why Iran’s policy making system is inefficient. This paper tries to analyze affecting factors in inefficiency of Iran’s policy making system by document method. These factors include non-coherent legal system, unfavorable political structure, multiple social cleavages, inappropriate cultural context, rentier economy and finally lack of discipline policy.

Political culture is combination of beliefs، attitudes and awarenesses that shape political behavior of a group or nation. In past، political culture of nations had been institutionalized but today has been changed to participatory political culture by reasons such as structural developments، information and communication revolution and globalization. In this article، the authors by using the approach of political economy try to answer this question، why has been static and continuance the subjugate political culture in Saudi Arabia? And too، by using the political sociological approach، explain the important reasons for the metamorphose in the political culture of Saudi society specially educates and urban youth from subjugate to participatory. The authors believe that such changes from 1990s onward especially at two last days، has made serious challenges for Saudi government and in the future، these challenges would oblige the government to the acceptation of more reformation.

The relation between economic development and democracy; and between oil and democracy has been tested from various points of view. The aim of this article is to find the possibility of economic development and democracy in the oil exporting countries, and it concludes that the formation of civil institutions and civil society helps bringing democracy to the countries with rentier economy by making the government transparent and responsible, and makes possible for these countries to reach economic and human development.

Increasing importance of economic globalization and efforts at leading statist and command economies towards free market economies in spite of the presence of rentier economies in the Persian Gulf region can illuminate many regional issues. This paper deals with the economic conditions in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Bahrain, using the rentier state analytical framework and an analysis of the impacts of globalization on the regional economic situation in four aspects including the reduction in the size of the state, economic liberalization, privatization and attraction of foreign investments. The hypothesis of the paper includes that the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, in spite of huge rentier revenues have moved to reduce the size of the state and to establish a free market economy as affected by the economic globalization.

Nowadays, the theory of political instabilities resulted from a rentier economy and a rentier state is once again criticized by academic circles and theorists in economic and political science. A majority of critics believe that empirical observations are not so much compatible with the instabilities resulted from this theory. Thus, this article tends to introduce instability as a factor creating economic fluctuations and study the case within the context of political business cycles. In fact, it attempts to discuss a new type of political business cycles which is a characteristic of rentier economies. This theoretical framework may be deemed as an exordium to design quantitative and technical models in the field of business cycles studies.