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1- Department of Public Adminis tration, Ins titute for Management and Planning S tudies , frahnavard@yahoo.com
2- Department of Public Adminis tration, Ins titute for Management and Planning S tudies
2- Department of Public Adminis tration, Ins titute for Management and Planning S tudies
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This article examines the challenges of the discourse on development and progress in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. Before the revolution, there was a unified understanding and relative consensus on the concept of development, but after the revolution, with the emergence of critical religious and leftist perspectives, previous development models that ignored the role of religion and clergy could no longer adapt to the new intellectual structure of Iran. As a result, coordination and consensus between social forces in determining development goals were lost.
Using the theory of the “biased coalition framework” from the field of the public policy-making process, the present study analyzes the causes of stability or change in development policies in Iran. The main question is which actors, in the form of which coalitions, with what beliefs and resources, and under what conditions, have shaped or changed the path of the country’s development policy. This study was conducted in the form of qualitative research with a post-graduate approach and thematic analysis method. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 17 academic experts and executives in the political, economic, and cultural fields using the snowball method and analyzed using MAXQDA2020 software. The result was the extraction of 536 initial codes and the formation of a network of basic, organizing, and overarching themes, which ultimately led to a conceptual model based on the partisan coalition framework.
Using the theory of the “biased coalition framework” from the field of the public policy-making process, the present study analyzes the causes of stability or change in development policies in Iran. The main question is which actors, in the form of which coalitions, with what beliefs and resources, and under what conditions, have shaped or changed the path of the country’s development policy. This study was conducted in the form of qualitative research with a post-graduate approach and thematic analysis method. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 17 academic experts and executives in the political, economic, and cultural fields using the snowball method and analyzed using MAXQDA2020 software. The result was the extraction of 536 initial codes and the formation of a network of basic, organizing, and overarching themes, which ultimately led to a conceptual model based on the partisan coalition framework.
Keywords: Advocacy Coalition Framework, Development policy, liberal modernization, institutionalism, Iranian Islamic model of progress
Type of Study: Research |
Subject:
Development Process
Received: Dec 31 2025 | Accepted: May 06 2026
Received: Dec 31 2025 | Accepted: May 06 2026
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