Power and Change in Iran

Daniel Brumberg is Associate Professor of Government and Co-Director of Democracy and Governance Studies at Georgetown University and a Special Advisor to the United States Institute of Peace. His books include Reinventing Khomeini: The Struggle for Reform in Iran, Moyen Orient: L'Enjeu Democratique, and Islam and Democracy in the Middle East (coedited with Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner). Farideh Farhi is an Independent Scholar and Affiliate Graduate Faculty at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her publications include States and Urban-Based Revolutions: Iran and Nicaragua.

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Introduction: Politics of Contention and Conciliation in Iran's Semi-Autocracy
Daniel Brumberg and Farideh Farhi

PART I. The Contested Terrain
1. Economic Privatization, Factional Politics, and Regime Transformation
Payam Mohseni
2. Social Welfare Policies and the Dynamics of Elite and Popular Contention
Kevan Harris
3. Education as Public Good or Private Resource: Accommodation and Demobilization in Iran's University System.
Shervin Malekzadeh

PART II. Institutional Evolution
4. The Office of the Supreme Leader: Epicenter of a Theocracy
Mehrzad Boroujerdi and Kourosh Rahimkhani
5. Electoral Politics, Power, and Prospects for Reform
Yasmin Alem

PART III. Political and Ideological Challenges
6. The Rule of Law and Conflict in the Reform Era
Mehrangiz Kar and Azadeh Pourzand
7. The Green Movement and Political Change in Iran
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
8. "This Government Is Neither Islamic nor a Republic": Responses to the 2009 Post-Election Crackdown
Shadi Mokhtari

Epilogue
Daniel Brumberg and Farideh Farhi

Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index