ABSTRACT
CONTENTS 32.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 546 32.2 Historical Background ........................................................................................ 546 32.3 Bureaucratization of Iran (1920s-1970s) ............................................................. 549 32.3.1 Th e Power Position of the Bureaucracy.................................................. 549 32.3.2 Th e Goals and Functions of the Bureaucracy .........................................551 32.3.3 Th e Bureaucratic Elite ............................................................................551 32.4 Th e Revolution of 1978-1979 and the Bureaucracy .............................................552 32.5 Debureaucratization of Iran: 1979-1982 .............................................................553 32.5.1 Institutionalization and Rebureaucratization: 1983 to the Present,
with an Update since 2005 .....................................................................553 32.6 Summary and Conclusion ...................................................................................559 References .......................................................................................................................561
