Published 2024-02-15
Keywords
- Iran,
- Max Weber,
- Political legitimacy,
- Iranian studies,
- Iranian sociology
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Abstract
Legitimacy is a major issue for the stability of any form of government and there are many studies and various scientific/philosophical models that try address the question of the forms of legitimacy and how they lead different peoples to give their consent to as many different methods of government. In the research hereby presented, the case study of Iran, the three types of legitimacy theorized by the German sociologist Max Weber will be emphasized and, therefore, this essay will try to demonstrate how they are the most practical method for analyzing the sociopolitical evolution of the Iranian leaderships over the past hundred years.