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Iran and the Third Wave

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There had been some reformist actions about the elected and unelected institutions, however it was struggled with conservative establishment. Since the Islamic Revolution, there have not been any free and fair elections. As seen in the table, guardian council has a right to veto candidates, in directly elected institutions. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is the most powerful actor in the government and during March 2012 parliamentary elections, one-third of the registered candidates, the Guardian Council disqualified; because they clashed with the Khamenei. Furthermore, non-Muslim minorities and women cannot get military and senior governmental positions. Minorities and women have a representative crisis. Moreover to these, all governmental and non-governmental organizations are under control by government. [Ira] Does the third wave affect Iran? Even the elections take place we cannot talk about will the Third Wave affect Iran and transition through democracy may shaped differently. Larry Diamond’s “Is the Third Wave Over” article defines pseudo-democracy as autocracies among their toleration of existence on independent parties. Neither in Iran, nor in other major authoritarian systems, like Russia, China, there has been worsening conditions as a rising phenomenon [Arc14]. Any Freedom House Reports that has been cited in this essay reports that there is no hope for the Iran will be democratized in short term, there is no significant effort to change this. Lipset and Diamond’s modernization approach may not work in Iran or other approaches that analyses why some countries are democratic why some are not; because of the Almond & Verba’s cultural approach. Table-2 shows the regional liberty statuses by year. Middle East and North Africa region has the highest rate of not free and lowest rate of free status. This table may support the culture has an incontrovertible effect on democratization. Religious partisans, who pave the way for

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