Democracy and Constitutional Politics in Iran

Farshad Malek-Ahmadi received his PhD in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1999. Since 2004, he has been teaching at Naugatuck Valley Community College, USA. For twenty years, he has taught sociology classes at academic institutions both in the United States and abroad. His research interests are in the areas of politics, law, and literature.

1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Framework
3. Structure of Domination if Pre-Modern Iran
4. Modernization of the State
5. Constitutional Revolution of Iran 1905-1911
6. Article 2 of the Supplement to Fundamental Law and the Constitutional Politics of Transition to Parliamentary Legislation
7. Clerical Control of the State: The Council of Guardians
8. Constitutional Crisis of the State: Revision and Confirmatory Supervision
9. Constitutional Politics of Political Parties and Institutions
10. Continuing Constitutional Crisis and Revision
11. Khatami Era and the Green Movement
12. Linkages Between Two Clerical Supervisions of the State and Other Relevant Issues
13. Women's Movement, Gender Equality, and Democratization
14. Democratization and Its Impediments in Iran
15. Conclusion