S.A. Hosseini Beheshti
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The Idea of citizenship and the related rights and duties is at the heart of the basics of the modern state and its formation, with its very influential role on the legal structures and processes of decision-making of democratic regimes. The Charter on Citizens’ Rights, published by the government ...
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The Idea of citizenship and the related rights and duties is at the heart of the basics of the modern state and its formation, with its very influential role on the legal structures and processes of decision-making of democratic regimes. The Charter on Citizens’ Rights, published by the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, confirms and clarifies the rights and duties of the citizens, and notified them to all governmental offices. Here I critically evaluate the contents of the Charter by using a multidisciplinary approach, showing its strengths and weaknesses for further revisions. In what follows, I offer a review of the history of the development of the idea of citizenship and its philosophical foundations in the first section. The second section is concerned with presenting very briefly the three main approaches to citizenship, i.e. the liberal, communitarian and republican, and their ethical, political, philosophical and sociological dimensions. The final section focused on the evaluation of some of the main themes of the Charter, following by some suggestions for further consideration.
E. Abbasi
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The present article tries to study communitarianism as one of the important normative approaches in social science, and present its methodological components in the explanation of political and social developments. However, the question is: what are the concepts and methodological principles of communitarianism ...
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The present article tries to study communitarianism as one of the important normative approaches in social science, and present its methodological components in the explanation of political and social developments. However, the question is: what are the concepts and methodological principles of communitarianism in the views of Alasdair MacIntyre? Communitarians select tradition instead of discourse and study five steps of rise, rationality, dialog, crisis and revival of thinking traditions. They are the constructivists of methodological domain. Their analysis is not at macro or micro level, but at local level. Contextual rationality and locality are very important for them. In sociological area, they put emphasis on communities and seek politics in them. Their rise is the result of the gradual fall of mobilizing ideologies such as the left and liberal in the political area, the decline of proletarian movements, the process of depoliticization of Europeans countries and the decline of the Green Party, the supporters of the environment, and the feminist movements. It seems that using this methodology instead of positivistic and hermeneutic approaches can help us develop a local approach for our perception of policymaking in the plural society of Iran and it can be used as an interdisciplinary theory for the humanities.