- Contents
- Preface
- Note on Transliteration
- Prologue: In Search of a National Covenant
- I. Constituting a National Community (1906–1953)
- 1. Constitutional Trial and Error
- 2. Pahlavist Absolutism
- 3. Restoration of Parliamentary Politics
- 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
- 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
The Quest for Democracy in Iran
A Century of Struggle against Authoritarian Rule
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Book Details
PAPERBACK
$21.00 • £15.95 • €18.90
ISBN 9780674057067
Publication: September 2010
Awards
- 2010 Mossadegh Prize, Mossadegh Foundation
- 2008–2009 Saidi-Sirjani Award, International Society for Iranian Studies
- Finalist, 2009 Connecticut Book Award, Non-Fiction Category, Connecticut Center for the Book
