Kian Tajbakhsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 245317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kian Tajbakhsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kian |
| FAMILY NAME | Tajbakhsh |
| SIGNATURE | TAJBAKHSH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6629-2702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa
The Political Economy of Fiscal Decentralization under the Islamic Republic of Iran
A key challenge for democratizing local government is the extent to which local policy is responsive and accountable to local voters’ preferences. The goal of this paper is to assess the potential relevance of this thesis in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) by focusing on the fiscal dimensions of elected local government first established in 1999. In this paper, I present descriptive data and empirical analysis to provide a comprehe…
Authoritarian state building through political decentralization and local government law
What motivates ideological authoritarian regimes to permit subnational elections? What mechanisms do these regimes employ to ensure that local electoral outcomes are favorable to the regime? Focusing on the decision to create a new tier of elected local government and the use of local government law, I argue that national elites can use local elections to strengthen state-building through increased institutionalization of mass political participa…
What Are Iranians Dreaming about Today? Reflections on the Islamic Revolution at 40
What Are Iranians Dreaming about Today?Reflections on the Islamic Revolution at 40 Kian Tajbakhsh (bio) INTRODUCTION almost 20 years ago, i published an article in this journal under the title "Political Decentralization and the Creation of Local Government in Iran: Consolidation or Transformation of the Theocratic State?" (Tajbakhsh 2000). The establishment of an elected local government in every city and village in Iran was the most significant…
Who Wants What from Iran Now? The Post-Nuclear Deal U.S. Policy Debate
President Donald Trump’s decision in May 2018 to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal (formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) threw open the question what to do next? Pre
Hind Swaraj
In both Iran and India, many social and cultural obstacles to authentic and humane social development are often traced to complexities caused by an encounter with Western modernity. In this essay, I explore what the Iranian reception of modernity might gain from the Indian conversation on Hind Swaraj. I show that Gandhi’s thought contains two different critiques of modernity. The first radical option entails the rejection of modernity and its cor…
Badlands of the Republic
Globalization and Cities in Comparative Perspective
Media in the Islamic World
THE three papers in this section explore the media’s role in shaping the public and private spheres in Islamic countries. Each paper approaches the issue from a different angle and each focuses upon somewhat distinct national and cultural contexts or units of analysis. Each paper raises a series of questions, some of which are addressed and some remain unanswered. In this brief introduction I will point to two questions in particular. The first i…
The Promise of the City
The Promise of the City
Textures of Place
The Promise of the CitySpace, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought
This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, the book offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, it says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultur…
The Promise of the City
The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shiftin…
Postmodernism, Postmarxism and the Question of Class
The Political Economy of Fiscal Decentralization under the Islamic Republic of Iran
A key challenge for democratizing local government is the extent to which local policy is responsive and accountable to local voters’ preferences. The goal of this paper is to assess the potential relevance of this thesis in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) by focusing on the fiscal dimensions of elected local government first established in 1999. In this paper, I present descriptive data and empirical analysis to provide a comprehe…
Media in the Islamic World
THE three papers in this section explore the media’s role in shaping the public and private spheres in Islamic countries. Each paper approaches the issue from a different angle and each focuses upon somewhat distinct national and cultural contexts or units of analysis. Each paper raises a series of questions, some of which are addressed and some remain unanswered. In this brief introduction I will point to two questions in particular. The first i…
The Promise of the City
Textures of Place
Postmodernism, Postmarxism and the Question of Class
The Promise of the CitySpace, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought
This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, the book offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, it says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultur…
The Promise of the City
The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shiftin…
The Promise of the City
The Promise of the City
Textures of Place
Media in the Islamic World
THE three papers in this section explore the media’s role in shaping the public and private spheres in Islamic countries. Each paper approaches the issue from a different angle and each focuses upon somewhat distinct national and cultural contexts or units of analysis. Each paper raises a series of questions, some of which are addressed and some remain unanswered. In this brief introduction I will point to two questions in particular. The first i…
Globalization and Cities in Comparative Perspective
Badlands of the Republic
Who Wants What from Iran Now? The Post-Nuclear Deal U.S. Policy Debate
President Donald Trump’s decision in May 2018 to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal (formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) threw open the question what to do next? Pre
Hind Swaraj
In both Iran and India, many social and cultural obstacles to authentic and humane social development are often traced to complexities caused by an encounter with Western modernity. In this essay, I explore what the Iranian reception of modernity might gain from the Indian conversation on Hind Swaraj. I show that Gandhi’s thought contains two different critiques of modernity. The first radical option entails the rejection of modernity and its cor…
What Are Iranians Dreaming about Today? Reflections on the Islamic Revolution at 40
What Are Iranians Dreaming about Today?Reflections on the Islamic Revolution at 40 Kian Tajbakhsh (bio) INTRODUCTION almost 20 years ago, i published an article in this journal under the title "Political Decentralization and the Creation of Local Government in Iran: Consolidation or Transformation of the Theocratic State?" (Tajbakhsh 2000). The establishment of an elected local government in every city and village in Iran was the most significant…
Authoritarian state building through political decentralization and local government law
What motivates ideological authoritarian regimes to permit subnational elections? What mechanisms do these regimes employ to ensure that local electoral outcomes are favorable to the regime? Focusing on the decision to create a new tier of elected local government and the use of local government law, I argue that national elites can use local elections to strengthen state-building through increased institutionalization of mass political participa…
The Political Economy of Fiscal Decentralization under the Islamic Republic of Iran
A key challenge for democratizing local government is the extent to which local policy is responsive and accountable to local voters’ preferences. The goal of this paper is to assess the potential relevance of this thesis in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) by focusing on the fiscal dimensions of elected local government first established in 1999. In this paper, I present descriptive data and empirical analysis to provide a comprehe…
Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works)