جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « political corruption » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

Corruption, as one of the main threats to the security and prosperity of countries, has attracted the attention of thinkers and policy makers for years. The Islamic Republic of Iran is not an exception to this rule, especially since this phenomenon has become one of the main threats to the country in recent years. Political corruption, as the most sensitive type of corruption in Iran, while affecting security in various dimensions and reducing public trust, is combined with the fact that its impact is often not well understood. As a result, political corruption in Iran needs more than new laws and institutions to fight it, it needs to find the root of the reasons for survival and failure to fight it. The purpose of this research is to present a model as a strategy for the success of the fight against corruption while investigating the cause of this failure in the fight against political corruption. Therefore, the central question of this research is; What factors in Iran have led to the ineffectiveness of the fight against political corruption, and what is the successful strategy for this fight? The findings of the research based on the descriptive-analytical method indicate that considering political corruption as a normal problem without an existential threat has led to the ineffectiveness of the approaches to combat it, and therefore securitization is the effective and real way to successfully combat it.

Josef Nay considers the political development as a preservation oflegitimacy of a political system within a given period and regards its factorsthe law domination, responsiveness, clarity, verification, politicalcompetition, free and fair elections along with their institutionalization.Failure to control and restrict corruption will usually endanger thetransition to political development. The lack of political development hasled to an increase in political corruption, and their relationship will berepeated in a series of cycles over the course of many periods. In this study,the concept of political corruption is the abuse of power delegated bypolitical and governmental agents in order to provide personal gain withthe aim of increasing power or wealth. In this study, political corruptionand its relation to political development from the political sociologyperspective have been examined in a documentary method. It has beenconcluded that political corruption brings lack of development and lack ofdevelopment, reciprocate political corruption. Political corruption has anegative influence on the process of political development and providesthe basic challenges for the political system and its citizens. Politicalcorruption also reduces citizen's trust in the system and will reduce thelegitimacy of political system.

Reasons behind culmination of the Islamic Revolution in Iran have been analyzed from various political, social, economic and cultural points of view. This study has relied on the “theory of good governance” to find the roots of the formation of Islamic Revolution in the historical period between 1953 and 1979. The pivotal factor in the theory of good governance is the constructive interaction of the government with the civil society. This constructive interaction results in political stability, political participation and controlling political corruption. The question is: How far was the second Pahlavi reign compatible with the theory of good governance in between the years 1953 and 1979, and how can the reasons behind culmination of Islamic Revolution be analyzed based on this theory? Findings of this research work suggest that in the period under discussion the hostile relations between the government and the civil society led to the expansion of political corruption, political instability and political participation against the ruling system. These factors accelerated culmination of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.