Democracy as a political form of social organization offers humanity its best prospect for freedom and peace. Today, it faces deliberate threats from totalitarian movements that rely on terrorist tactics. Democracy also faces threats from its own leaders because of the consequential nature of their judgment and decision making. This article examines how threats to democracy are perceived and ma...

in the end of twentieth. century and •the .beginning of the third millennium, all political regimes' practically for acquiring legitimacy want to introduce themselves as a democratic system. today there is no question about the truth of the democracy, ;whether that is . fundamentally good or bad? but the question 'is a bout the most efficient and the best form of democracy. nowadays, ...

14 A New Technique for Analysis of Static Eccentricity in Axial Flux Resolver F. Tootoonchian, K. Abbaszadeh and M. Ardebili Ph.D. Candidate of Electrical and Computer Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Shariati street, 16314, Tehran, Iran, [email protected] 2,3 Electrical and Computer Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Shariati street, 16314, Tehran, Iran,...

A total of 2,305 consecutive newborns at Shariati Hospital, Tehran, Iran, and 1,706 at Lolagar Hospital, Tehran, Iran, were examined for 2 years (2004-2006). Mongolian spots were found in 11.4% and 37.3% of newborns at Shariati and Lolagar hospitals, respectively. The most frequent site of involvement is the sacral, followed by the gluteal area.

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...

There is an inherent tension between federalism and democracy. From the perspective of the constituent states that make up a federation, federalism constrains democracy because requirements of federal law may limit a state’s ability to adopt policies consistent with its citizens’ preferences. From the perspective of the federation as a whole, federalism constrains democracy because state govern...

Yeganeh Talebkhan1, Marjan Mohammadi2, Ghader Khalili3, Arghavan Sheykholeslami4, Naser Rakhshani5, Fereidoun Mahboudi6, Sadegh Massarrat7 1 Researcher, Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran-National Biotechnology Network, Ministry of Health and Medical Education 2 Assistant Professor, Biotechnology Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran-National Biotechnology Network, Mi...

The conventional wisdom, since at least the writings of John Dewey (1916), views high levels of educational attainment as a prerequisite for democracy. Education is argued to promote democracy both because it enables a “culture of democracy” to develop and because it leads to greater prosperity, which is also thought to cause political development. The most celebrated version of this argument i...