Iranian moderates made significant gains in the country’s February 2016 legislative elections. The reformists won 85 out of 290 seats compared with 75 seats for the conservatives. However, the reformists represented in the new parliament have no historical continuity with the reformist camp of the former President Mohammad Khatami; those reformists who might challenge the supreme leaders ideolo...

Arab countries face major challenges, including foreign occupations, deficient liberties, poor governance, squandering of resources, economic regression, inequities, and illiteracy. Arab reformists have advocated political, economic, and social change since the late 19th century. However, despite decades of local pressure for change, reforms remain elusive. We consider how action on health can ...

in cinema, the relationship between art and society is questioned more than other kinds of art. among all diverse approaches studying cinema, the reflection approach- believing cinema is impressed by the society. this approach is a theoretical framework of this research. the main question is how cinema reflected political demands of iranian society from 1995 to 2006. this period is noticeable c...

Ecocentric management has grown in interest business sustainability research, driven by recent debates on sustainability-as-flourishing and novel nature-based approaches. While relevant promising, examination explanations remain anchored conventional dualistic thinking piecemeal logics. In this article, we seek to understand what conditions or combination of enable the formation ecocentrism man...

The political conditions for reform are often summed-up in the phrase ‘Good Governance’. While the technical nature of Good Governance has been widely discussed, implementing it is an exercise of political power. To identify what constitutes the exercise of power in a Good Governance regime, I conduct a case-study of Nigeria’s debt-relief gains, secured in 2005. Having established a simultaneou...

Abstract This article discusses the contribution of European political parties to democratic backsliding. It focuses on People’s Party’s efforts protect Hungarian government, and Conservatives Reformists party’s permissive acceptance Polish government’s attacks democracy rule law, analysing these patterns behaviour as a form complicity in In second step, examines existing possibilities normativ...

social and economic structures in iran underwent much change in the 1960s and the 2000s. in the 1960s mohammad reza pahlavi launched a reform called “white revolution” or “revolution of the shah and nation”. his goal was to transform iran from an undeveloped feudal society to a developed and capitalist one. again at the 2000s, when reformists gained the power, the existing discourses fundamenta...