جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « state capacity » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

Despite the pursuit of industrial development as a solution to various socioeconomic and sociopolitical issues such as the urgent need for reconstructing war damages in Iran, foreign debt crisis in Egypt, and population growth in both countries, statistical data shows only slight progress. The graph of the GDP growth, which is a reliable index for measuring industrial output, demonstrate numerous fluctuations as well as instability in the economic growth rate for both cases under the studied time period. Failing to diversify the economy, the state in Iran and Egypt at the end of this era, still relied heavily on the unproductive rents mostly from hydrocarbon exports. Why this is the case in spite of the national leadership putting industrial development on the agenda? I address this question through examining state capacity; focusing on the internal cohesion of state authority, as well as its relation to society. In so doing, comparative historical analysis and causal narrative method is used

Examining the performance of the important economic institutions of the country can help us to understand the current situation and also to find suitable ways to repair the gaps in the future. One of the relatively new concepts in political science to study the performance of institutions is the concept of government capacity. In the present article, using this concept and documentary method and historical analysis of data and information, the performance of this organization is emphasized by emphasizing the five development plans; this performance is evaluated based on two main and important indicators of the concept of government capacity, namely the degree of bureaucracy independence from the government and institutional efficiency. The results show that the PBO has been the most efficient and effective in terms of the two main components of government capacity during the reform period; the reason for this stems from the government's more realistic view of the country's economy and development (based on the country's requirements and conditions) and efforts to reduce entrepreneurship in this area. These results also indicate that according to the analysis of the efficiency of this organization over nearly four decades, creating fundamental structural changes in the organization is a priority and the officials of this institution should pay more attention to improving the two basic components of independence and institutional efficiency.

This paper has investigated the role of state intervention in industrial development of Iran and Malaysia. There is a little time difference between Islamic Revolution of Iran and the independence of Malaysia, but the level of industrial development between them are very different. This paper explains differences based on state capabilities and the path of evolution of these capabilities and shows the effect of institutional legacy on policy capacity, implementation capacity and state capacity. Oil in Iran and the effect of colonization on Malaysia have had crucial effects on state capabilities. Comparative-historical analysis with institutional approach, using historical narrative and through applying path-dependency analysis has been used to collect and analyzing data. The main focus of the article is on developments in 1980 decade, but all period of attempting for industrialization in both countries has been observed. This period in Malaysia starts with independence in 1958, and in Iran backs to 1940s. This paper emphasizes on mechanisms of successful intervention of state in industrialization and their interaction with quality of government and social contexts.