Ladan Boroumand
Biographic Data
| ID | 1594983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ladan Boroumand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ladan |
| FAMILY NAME | Boroumand |
| SIGNATURE | BOROUMAND L |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Democratic Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Requiem per la Repubblica islamica
The Islamic Republic’s War on Iranians
The protests of the 2022–23 Woman, Life, Freedom (WLF) movement—sparked by the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini—brought women’s issues squarely to the center of the political stage, marking a new phase in the estrangement between the Islamic Republic and Iranian society. Unlike earlier mass protests rooted in economic grievances, the WLF movement was from the outset a direct ideological challenge to the regime. However, eMorts to formalize opposition …
Iranians Turn Away from the Islamic Republic
The Islamic Republic of Iran is confronted with an unprecedented legitimacy crisis. This article, highlighting the heterodox character of Iran's theocratic ideology, stresses the tectonic social and cultural changes that have resulted in society's estrangement from the state over the past forty years in a reaction against this ideology. The nature and depth of these social and cultural changes point to a historic process that is taking Iran towar…
Iran’s Exclusionary Republic
Iran’s Exclusionary Republic Ladan Boroumand (bio) Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed. By Misagh Parsa. Harvard University Press, 2016. 406 pp. In the final days of 2017, an astonished world witnessed an explosion of popular anger all over Iran that lasted for more than a week. It was not the first time that the Islamic Republic had faced irate demonstrators. In 2009, millions had marched peacefully in the streets of Tehran…
Waning Democratic Hopes
Contrary to the international media’s accounts of a victory for “reform,” Iran’s 2017 presidential election—won by incumbent Hassan Rouhani—reflected the demoralization of the prodemocratic opposition. Since the late 1990s, the ruling oligarchy has comprised three factions: “reformists,” “realists,” and “principlists.” The failure of reformism under Mohammad Khatami (1997–2005) and violent repression of the “Green Wave” movement in 2009 left refo…
Iran in Ferment: Civil Society's Choice
In Iran, the supreme leader's absolute power over the government emanates not from the people, but rather from the divine authority of the Twelfth (or Hidden) Imam. Elections are thus mere administrative procedures whose legitimacy depends upon the pre-election vetting of the candidates and the postelection approval of the results by the unelected, cleric-dominated Council of Guardians. Even so, it is clear that the civil-rights movement put its …
Iran's Resilient Civil Society: The Untold Story of the Fight for Human Rights
Observers who focus too much on elections have failed to grasp the maturation of Iranian civil society, even as hard-liners have come to dominate the government. The birth of a civil rights movement in Iran is a ray of hope in a region beset by difficulties, and the most promising response to the new totalitarian threat that is endangering the world's stability. Democratic governments around the world should realize that supporting this movement …
Iran’s Peculiar Election: The Role of Ideology
Iran’s Peculiar ElectionThe Role of Ideology Ladan Boroumand (bio) Iran's June 2005 presidential elections caught the world by surprise. All the reformist candidates failed in the first round, while the runoff saw pragmatic conservative ex-president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and his platform of more social (as distinct from political) freedom lose to economic populist and Islamist hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. Experts have scrambled to expla…
Terror, Islam, and Democracy
Although Islamist terror groups invoke a host of religious references, the real source of their ideas is not the Koran but rather Leninism, fascism,and other strains of twentieth-century thought that exalt totalitarian violence
Reform at an Impasse
In parliamentary elections on 18 February 2000, Iranians cast their ballots overwhelmingly in favor of candidates who supported the reforms advocated by President Mohammad Khatami. Named after the day of Khatami's 1997 election to the presidency, the Second of Khordad coalition, which brings together 18 reformist groups, captured 189 seats in the 290-member Majlis. Heading the list of winners with 60 seats was one of the coalition's principal mem…
Emigration and the Rights of Man: French Revolutionary Legislators Equivocate
La nation contre le peuple. Le débat sur la vérification commune des mandats aux États généraux de 1789
La dénomination de l'Assemblée issue de la vérification commune des mandats divise la Chambre des communes aux Etats généraux durant les mois de mai et juin 1789. Le Tiers Etat hésite entre « l'Assemblée des représentants du peuple » (motion de Mirabeau) et « l'Assemblée nationale » (motion de Sieyès). Si l'acception du concept de « peuple » dans l'opinion de l'époque pourrait expliquer l'hésitation du Tiers Etat, il est plus surprenant en revanc…
Terror, Islam, and Democracy
Although Islamist terror groups invoke a host of religious references, the real source of their ideas is not the Koran but rather Leninism, fascism,and other strains of twentieth-century thought that exalt totalitarian violence
Iranians Turn Away from the Islamic Republic
The Islamic Republic of Iran is confronted with an unprecedented legitimacy crisis. This article, highlighting the heterodox character of Iran's theocratic ideology, stresses the tectonic social and cultural changes that have resulted in society's estrangement from the state over the past forty years in a reaction against this ideology. The nature and depth of these social and cultural changes point to a historic process that is taking Iran towar…
Iran’s Peculiar Election: The Role of Ideology
Iran’s Peculiar ElectionThe Role of Ideology Ladan Boroumand (bio) Iran's June 2005 presidential elections caught the world by surprise. All the reformist candidates failed in the first round, while the runoff saw pragmatic conservative ex-president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and his platform of more social (as distinct from political) freedom lose to economic populist and Islamist hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. Experts have scrambled to expla…
Iran's Resilient Civil Society: The Untold Story of the Fight for Human Rights
Observers who focus too much on elections have failed to grasp the maturation of Iranian civil society, even as hard-liners have come to dominate the government. The birth of a civil rights movement in Iran is a ray of hope in a region beset by difficulties, and the most promising response to the new totalitarian threat that is endangering the world's stability. Democratic governments around the world should realize that supporting this movement …
Reform at an Impasse
In parliamentary elections on 18 February 2000, Iranians cast their ballots overwhelmingly in favor of candidates who supported the reforms advocated by President Mohammad Khatami. Named after the day of Khatami's 1997 election to the presidency, the Second of Khordad coalition, which brings together 18 reformist groups, captured 189 seats in the 290-member Majlis. Heading the list of winners with 60 seats was one of the coalition's principal mem…
Iran in Ferment: Civil Society's Choice
In Iran, the supreme leader's absolute power over the government emanates not from the people, but rather from the divine authority of the Twelfth (or Hidden) Imam. Elections are thus mere administrative procedures whose legitimacy depends upon the pre-election vetting of the candidates and the postelection approval of the results by the unelected, cleric-dominated Council of Guardians. Even so, it is clear that the civil-rights movement put its …
La nation contre le peuple. Le débat sur la vérification commune des mandats aux États généraux de 1789
La dénomination de l'Assemblée issue de la vérification commune des mandats divise la Chambre des communes aux Etats généraux durant les mois de mai et juin 1789. Le Tiers Etat hésite entre « l'Assemblée des représentants du peuple » (motion de Mirabeau) et « l'Assemblée nationale » (motion de Sieyès). Si l'acception du concept de « peuple » dans l'opinion de l'époque pourrait expliquer l'hésitation du Tiers Etat, il est plus surprenant en revanc…
La nation contre le peuple. Le débat sur la vérification commune des mandats aux États généraux de 1789
La dénomination de l'Assemblée issue de la vérification commune des mandats divise la Chambre des communes aux Etats généraux durant les mois de mai et juin 1789. Le Tiers Etat hésite entre « l'Assemblée des représentants du peuple » (motion de Mirabeau) et « l'Assemblée nationale » (motion de Sieyès). Si l'acception du concept de « peuple » dans l'opinion de l'époque pourrait expliquer l'hésitation du Tiers Etat, il est plus surprenant en revanc…
Reform at an Impasse
In parliamentary elections on 18 February 2000, Iranians cast their ballots overwhelmingly in favor of candidates who supported the reforms advocated by President Mohammad Khatami. Named after the day of Khatami's 1997 election to the presidency, the Second of Khordad coalition, which brings together 18 reformist groups, captured 189 seats in the 290-member Majlis. Heading the list of winners with 60 seats was one of the coalition's principal mem…
Emigration and the Rights of Man: French Revolutionary Legislators Equivocate
Terror, Islam, and Democracy
Although Islamist terror groups invoke a host of religious references, the real source of their ideas is not the Koran but rather Leninism, fascism,and other strains of twentieth-century thought that exalt totalitarian violence
Iran’s Peculiar Election: The Role of Ideology
Iran’s Peculiar ElectionThe Role of Ideology Ladan Boroumand (bio) Iran's June 2005 presidential elections caught the world by surprise. All the reformist candidates failed in the first round, while the runoff saw pragmatic conservative ex-president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and his platform of more social (as distinct from political) freedom lose to economic populist and Islamist hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. Experts have scrambled to expla…
Iran's Resilient Civil Society: The Untold Story of the Fight for Human Rights
Observers who focus too much on elections have failed to grasp the maturation of Iranian civil society, even as hard-liners have come to dominate the government. The birth of a civil rights movement in Iran is a ray of hope in a region beset by difficulties, and the most promising response to the new totalitarian threat that is endangering the world's stability. Democratic governments around the world should realize that supporting this movement …
Iran in Ferment: Civil Society's Choice
In Iran, the supreme leader's absolute power over the government emanates not from the people, but rather from the divine authority of the Twelfth (or Hidden) Imam. Elections are thus mere administrative procedures whose legitimacy depends upon the pre-election vetting of the candidates and the postelection approval of the results by the unelected, cleric-dominated Council of Guardians. Even so, it is clear that the civil-rights movement put its …
Waning Democratic Hopes
Contrary to the international media’s accounts of a victory for “reform,” Iran’s 2017 presidential election—won by incumbent Hassan Rouhani—reflected the demoralization of the prodemocratic opposition. Since the late 1990s, the ruling oligarchy has comprised three factions: “reformists,” “realists,” and “principlists.” The failure of reformism under Mohammad Khatami (1997–2005) and violent repression of the “Green Wave” movement in 2009 left refo…
Iran’s Exclusionary Republic
Iran’s Exclusionary Republic Ladan Boroumand (bio) Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed. By Misagh Parsa. Harvard University Press, 2016. 406 pp. In the final days of 2017, an astonished world witnessed an explosion of popular anger all over Iran that lasted for more than a week. It was not the first time that the Islamic Republic had faced irate demonstrators. In 2009, millions had marched peacefully in the streets of Tehran…
Iranians Turn Away from the Islamic Republic
The Islamic Republic of Iran is confronted with an unprecedented legitimacy crisis. This article, highlighting the heterodox character of Iran's theocratic ideology, stresses the tectonic social and cultural changes that have resulted in society's estrangement from the state over the past forty years in a reaction against this ideology. The nature and depth of these social and cultural changes point to a historic process that is taking Iran towar…
Requiem per la Repubblica islamica
The Islamic Republic’s War on Iranians
The protests of the 2022–23 Woman, Life, Freedom (WLF) movement—sparked by the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini—brought women’s issues squarely to the center of the political stage, marking a new phase in the estrangement between the Islamic Republic and Iranian society. Unlike earlier mass protests rooted in economic grievances, the WLF movement was from the outset a direct ideological challenge to the regime. However, eMorts to formalize opposition …
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