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The Quest for Democracy in Iran

A Century of Struggle against Authoritarian Rule

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ISBN 9780674057067

Publication: September 2010

Short

512 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

20 halftones

World

Contents

Preface

Note on Transliteration

Prologue: In Search of a National Covenant

Part I. Constituting a National Community (1906–1953)

1. Constitutional Trial and Error

2. Pahlavist Absolutism

3. Restoration of Parliamentary Politics

Part II. Authoritarian Supremacy: Consolidation and Collapse (1953–1979)

4. The Trajectories of Monarchism

5. Revolution: Chronicle of an Implosion

6. The Edifice and Emplacements of Royal Rule

7. Elective Affinities: Western Imperial Interests and Authoritarian Monarchy

8. The Architecture of Royalist Hegemony

9. A Culture of Confrontation

Part III. The Eclipse of Popular Sovereignty: Iran since 1979

10. The Unfolding of Clerical Rule: Oligarchy by Divine Right?

11. The Culture of Politics: The Presence and Absence of the Past

12. Predicaments and Prospects

Epilogue: The Resilience of Modernity

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Awards

  • 2010 Mossadegh Prize, Mossadegh Foundation
  • Finalist, 2009 Connecticut Book Award, Non-Fiction Category, Connecticut Center for the Book
  • 2008–2009 Saidi-Sirjani Award, International Society for Iranian Studies
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