Book provides ambitious data-based overview of Iran
A new book co-authored by Maxwell School political scientist Mehrzad
Boroujerdi offers an unprecedented range of data about and descriptions of the
political landscape of Iran since the nation’s 1979 revolution.
Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook,
recently published by Syracuse University Press, provides the most
comprehensive collection of data now available on political life in
postrevolutionary Iran. The book, co-authored by Binghamton University doctoral
candidate Kourosh Rahimkhani, includes coverage of 36 national elections, more
than 400 legal and outlawed political organizations, and family ties among the
elite. The book provides biographical sketches of more than 2,300 political
personalities, ranging from cabinet ministers and parliament deputies to
clerical, judicial, and military leaders; much of this information was previously
unavailable in English. The book’s systematic charting of Iran’s complex power structure
serves the needs of policymakers, researchers, and scholars of the Middle East.
Boroujerdi, a professor of
political science and O’Hanley Faculty Scholar at the Maxwell School, is a leading
expert on Middle Eastern affairs. He oversees the Iran Data Portal,
an online repository for social science data on post-revolutionary Iran —
including, among other resources, translations of laws, regulations, and fatwas;
governmental budgets; socio-economic data; and electoral data. Boroujerdi is
the editor of Mirror for the Muslim
Prince: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft (2013) and author of Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The
Tormented Triumph of Nativism (1996) and I Carved, Worshiped and Shattered: Essays on Iranian Politics and
Identity (2010), in addition to more than 30 journal articles and book
chapters.
The author was recently interviewed
by Jadaliyya (an independent ezine produced by the Arab Studies Institute) about
Postrevolutionary Iran.
06/25/18