ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF POLITICAL SCIENCE DISCIPLINE IN IRAN: Measuring the Attitudes of Political Science Professors at Tehran University

Understanding the status of the political science and evaluating its strengths and weaknesses is one of the major concerns of scholars and political science professors in the latest decade. The need for discussion in this regard is related to this fact that so far field research has not been conducted to understand the views of political science professors of the University of Tehran - as one of the main actors - and to analyze their views on the current status and potential future of political science in Iran. So, the main question is how do you assess the status and position of the political science in present and future? The main focus of the discussion in this paper is to measure the attitudes of political science professors in Tehran University regarding the status of education and research in the field of political science. In order to measure the status quo, the variables affecting the relationship between education, research, degree of interest, degree of satisfaction, degree of willingness to do research works and group activities were selected that reflect the attitudes of professors in this field. The statistical society includes all political science professors of Tehran University in the academic year 1396-1397 (2017-2018), of which 29 persons were. The main purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the political science in order to promote its position in the academic structure of the Iranian universities.