experience of double revolutionary upheavals in russia during the 20th century which produced a new socio-economic regularity on one hand and changed the political system from monarchial to democratic republic and then soviet state and finally presidential republic at the end of 20th century on the other hand are treated as democratic movements. in this regard, crumbling of ex-soviet regime and...

I develop a socialist republican conception of economic liberty and show how it can be used to understand the domination workers. It holds that both paid unpaid workers deprived freedom when they are exposed an arbitrary power undermine their access capabilities needed for civic equality. Measures intended reduce recommended, including public ownership productive property, workplace democracy, ...

the aim of this paper is to explain the relationship between generation gap and democracy in iran in the last fifty years. to do so, the writers have used the results of the national polls conducted in 1974, 1995 and 2002 in their attempt to clarify the activeness or inactiveness of the generation gap by analyzing the differences between the attitudes, values and behaviors of the young and adul...

In recent years, the call for strong and clear property rights has grown in law and development circles. In the landmark book The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, de Soto put forth the claim that “strong and clear” property rights, formalized rather than informal, are necessary for economic efficiency and for the protection of the poor, who occu...

Capitalism has emerged as a force for peace in studies of interstate conflict. Is capitalism also a force for peace within nations? This article shows how a market-capitalist economy—one where most citizens normally obtain their livelihoods contracting in the market—creates citizen-wide preferences for universal freedom, peace, and the democratic rule of law. Prior research has corroborated the...

the aim of present article is to review social classes and forces(political and economic ) situation in iran 1981-2001.the writer explained the discussion. by relative relying on poulantzas theory, this discussion indicates that in mentioned years, some groups, such as commercial and traditional middle class , because of enjoying political and economic resources were stronger than other strata ...

Weberian sociological approaches dominate the contemporary study of inequality in Latin America. Theoretically, major works area suffer from a conflation liberalism and democracy offer flawed conceptions capitalism, class, other social relations oppression. This article offers an exegesis critique several recent influential texts written within tradition. It then proposes as alternative Marxian...