according to the third-development program in 1379, government was obliged to design a suitable social security polity and submit it to the parliament for final approval. during recent weeks and after nearly a two-year delay, a bill was edited by government and sent to the islamic parliament. this long - term delay indicates the serious differences in the field of law - making and necessary fra...

the research discussed in this article consists of the process ended to propos a structure for social welfare and security which took more than 11 months in social security research institute. the main topics discussed are as follows: 1- the importance of social security and its relationship to economic growth, social justice, human generosity and national honor. 2- the basis and opportunities ...

INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................... 1750 I. THE MODEL: “WORLD POLITY” INSTITUTIONALISM AND THE STATE............. 1753 A. Understanding Social Organization: Sociological Institutionalism .......................................................................... 1754 B. Understanding the State as a Social Organization: ...

Social simulation models from computational social science are beginning to provide significant advances in terms of implementing more complex social, human, and natural dynamics that are characteristic of how realworld countries operate. The MASON RebeLand model presents three innovations: (1) an explicit polity model with politically complete structure and processes; (2) social and natural mo...

World polity theory is explicitly relational, implying a global network structure that exists outside of the nation-state. And world polity theory increasingly acknowledges power – that some states and regions are dominant in the international " eld. But current world polity measures of international nongovernmental organizations do not adequately incorporate either networks or power, leading t...

The armed forces of the United States do not and cannot operate in isolation from the larger American society. They are part of a polity whose needs they must serve. Moreover, to win the trust and support of the larger polity, the armed services must be widely perceived as serving important social needs. Without this trust and support, the armed forces will not get the resources they need to fu...

1 See, for example, J. Habermas, The Theory of Communicative Action. Volume 1: Reason and the Rationalization of Society, trans. T. McCarthy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987 [1981]), hereafter TCA I, pp. xli and xliv. See also J. Habermas, On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction: Preliminary Studies in the Theory of Communicative Action, trans. B. Fultner (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001 [1984]), p...

The evolution of the polity, particularly the transition of chiefdoms to states, has been the subject of considerable debate. In this article, the authors engage the discussion surrounding the meta-theoretical positions on the tempo of change, specifically whether states emerged grad ually from quantitative changes in chiefdom societies—gradualism—or if their appearance was the result of punctu...

Kinship is central to an understanding of sociopolitical organization and the organization of production in Chaco Canyon. Between A.D. 700 and 900, lifeways in the Chacoan wor7ld underwent a transformation that reflects the evolution of matrilocal residence. Matrilocal groups became the foundation of a polity based on a corporate political strategy. Matrilocality provided the peoples of the Cha...