Pre-revolutionary Iran Research Articles

National conditions and local-level political structures: patronage in prerevolutionary Iran

Recent theoretical examinations of patron-client relationships suggest that local conditions alone cannot account for their variant forms. Rather, it is argued that local-level relationships can only be explained if seen within a larger political-economic context. This paper employs a model of supralocal determination to account for the nature of patron-client relationships among a tribal population in Kerman Province in south-central Iran. The paper shows that in prerevolutionary Iran patrons derived material benefits from their clients while political clientism was absent. I argue that these local conditions arose through the overlay of Mohammad Reza Shah's oil-based centralization of political power upon the already present, general pattern of an upward flow of wealth that characterized 19th- and 20th-century Iran/Persia. [political anthropology, Middle East, patron-client relations, state power and revenue, Iran]

Psychiatric profiles of adolescents in pre-revolutionary Iran.

In 1977 when this research was undertaken, Iran was witnessing the emergence of growing numbers of distressed adolescents. Psychiatric profiles of adolescent outpatients (N = 110) and undiagnosed adolescents (N = 406) were obtained using an adapted version of the Johns Hopkins Symptom checklist-90. These profiles are compared with those from the American adolescent psychiatric outpatients. The results show that Iranian adolescents register significantly higher distress levels on nearly all the scales. The findings are discussed in the light of prevalent child rearing practices, rapid socio-economic transition and political-cultured factors dominating the pre-revolutionary Iran.

Iran's Basic Macroeconomic Problems: A Twenty-Year Horizon

Previous articleNext article No AccessIran's Basic Macroeconomic Problems: A Twenty-Year HorizonFirouz VakilFirouz Vakil Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 25, Number 4Jul., 1977 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/450982 Views: 9Total views on this site Citations: 4Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1977 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Saeed P. Langarudi, Michael J. Radzicki Resurrecting a Forgotten Model: Updating Mashayekhi’s Model of Iranian Economic Development, (Oct 2013): 197–233.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8606-0_11Kamal Fatehi, Rajaram Veliyath Growth Strategies and Counter-Economic Development: The Case of Pre-Revolutionary Iran, Journal of Transnational Management 13, no.33 (Oct 2008): 195–225.https://doi.org/10.1080/15475770802402216Sohrab Behdad Winners and Losers of The Iranian Revolution: A Study in Income Distribution, International Journal of Middle East Studies 21, no.33 (Jan 2009): 327–358.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800032542Robert E. Looney Pre-revolutionary Iranian economic policy making, Economic Modelling 2, no.44 (Oct 1985): 357–368.https://doi.org/10.1016/0264-9993(85)90032-X