Government Wilayah Al-Faqih in Iran and Contemporary Global Challenges

ISLAM AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL CHALLENGES

Evaluating the Compatibility between Urban Researches and Contemporary Urban Challenges in Iran

“The urban researches in Iran aren't applicable to the real challenges of Iran’s cities”. In order to examine the mentioned hypothesis, “existing problems of Iran’s cities” and “Iran’s urban researches” are compared by means of the urban news and research journals. The framework analyze method [a kind of qualitative research method] has been used to analyze the data in the form of axial-themati...

Big City Government : Global Challenges and Institutional Capacity

The paper examines institutional changes in the political and administrative structures governing the cities of Berlin, London and Paris. In doing so, it analyzes the extent to which convergent trends – driven by forces related to increased international competition and European integration – have shaped recent reforms of the governance systems of these European capital cities. In particular, t...

Contemporary Challenges in Local Government: Evolving Roles and Responsibilities, Structures, and Processes

Th ree contemporary leadership challenges face local governments today. Th e fi rst encourages department heads to more actively work the intersection between political and administrative arenas. Th e second promotes collaborative work, synchronizing city and county boundaries with problems that have no jurisdictional homes. Th e third argues that citizen engagement is no longer optional—it is ...

Government Banking and Economic Growth in Iran

One of the measures taken by the 1979 Revolutionary Government of Iran was to denounce the mixed public-private ownership of the banking system of the pre-revolutionary era and implement a full scale banking nationalization and merging scheme. Since then the banking system has been operating under close supervision and scrutiny of the government - exercising its power to impose a variety of res...