PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION OF SOCIAL POLITICAL RELATIONS

grand policies and philosophical foundation of political regime

“grand policies” are based on philosophical foundation of political regimes, and they are related with strategic problems of political system. because of philosophical nature and strategic level of grand policies, it is recommended that they have not to be numerous. in iranian political system, official structure of policy making procedure begins by the expediency council. this council, accordi...

From Opposition to Accommodation: How Rockefeller Foundation Grants Redefined Relations between Political Theory and Social Science in the 1950s

Machiavelli and the Foundation of the Modern Political Thought

The present article intends to start introduction to the political thinking of          Machiavelli by passing through some key concepts in his thinking, and by placing his idea in the area of political thinking. Surveying ethics in Machiavelli’s political thinking needs     separate individual ethics from political (civil) one.  And explaining Machiavelli’s remarks about the category of ethics...

The Philosophical Foundation of Conceptual Knowledge – A Sociopragmatic Approach

Information Systems Research is still said to have no substantial philosophical foundation. As human inquiry relies on social contextualization, shared language and common practice, several consequences for conceptual models and conceptual knowledge are resulting. With the approach of “sociopragmatic constructivism”, we seek to develop a philosophical foundation for the understanding of concept...

The Role of Political Elite Relations in the Elites Circulation

Political elite’s relations for maintaining power is an important key to analyse the government’s behaviour. This paper presents a new network policy among the Iranian political elite using Social Network Analysis Method. How do they make the network? Is there Elite to Elite family relation based on ideological united or common interests? Network boundary is the political elites who have kinshi...