Governance and Social Justice in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Document Type : Original Research

Authors
Masoud Ghaffari 1
Shahrooz Shariati 2
1 Associate Professor of Political Science, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2 ssistant Professor of Political Science at Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
One of the challenges of the Islamic Republic of Iran during her forty years since the 1979 revolution is the bewilderment for the realization of social justice. Although it is argued that the lack of social justice during the Pahlavi regime finally resulted in the Islamic Revolution, failure in the improvement of social justice indices after the revolution, especially after the end of the war between Iran and Iraq in 1988, has resulted in governance policies that are contrary to social justice. Given that social justice in Iran is not desirable and the current situation in Iran, forty years after the revolution, does not resemble much the ideals of the revolutionary leaders for establishing social justice, the present article, by referring to reliable data and using analytical-descriptive method, attempts to show that the governance practices in Iran have not been able to realize social justice which entails taking into consideration the successful international experiences and implementation of the good governance practices.

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The International Journal of Humanities
Volume 26, Issue 1
Summer 2019
Pages 14-28