Marvin Zonis
Biographic Data
| ID | 325591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marvin Zonis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marvin |
| FAMILY NAME | Zonis |
| SIGNATURE | ZONIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Response to Letter from Dr. Robert M. Dorn
Conspiracy Thinking in the Middle East
Conspiracy thinking is defined as a pattern of explanatory reasoning about events and situations of personal, social, and historical significance in which a conspiracy is the dominant or operative actor. While conspiracy thinking exists to some extent probably in every society, the authors note the special prevalence of this type of thinking in the Arab-Iranian-Muslim Middle East, and offer a psychoanalytically based approach to conspiracy thinki…
Exaggerating Islam
Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah
The Rule of the Clerics in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Direct rule by Islamic clerics in Iran is an important new phenomenon in Middle Eastern politics. The legitimacy of clerical rule is based on an ideology developed from Shiite thought by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his neofundamentalist followers. This ideology is embodied in the Iranian Constitution, which institutionalizes rule by Islamic clerics. Their sense of legitimacy has been reinforced by Khomeini's commitment to maintaining clerical…
Self-Objects, Self-Representation, and Sense-Making Crises: Political Instability in the 1980s
This paper presents a psychologically derived theory of revolution based on the notion of crises. It is suggested that a revolution is a phase in a process which may occur when a high proportion of a society experience an inability to construct their worlds in a satisfactory and fulfilling manner. Using psychoanalytic self-psychology, the role of self-objects in this process is specified as is the place of ideology and leadership. Ideology is see…
Iran: A Theory of Revolution from Accounts of the Revolution
Four issues must be articulated and related in order to create a general theory of revolution: revolutionary leadership and organization, mass participation, the nature of revolutionary action, and system response. Recent studies of the Iranian revolution provide abundant descriptive materials relevant to the last three issues, but little to illuminate the nature of the leadership of the revolution or its organization. Few of the studies attempt …
Classes, Elites and Iranian Politics: An Exchange
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The Study of Elite Circulation: Who's on First and What's He Doing There
The New Ego: Pitfalls in Current Thinking About Patients in Psychoanalysis.Nathan Leites
Citizens, Elections, Parties: Approaches to the Comparative Study of the Processes of Development.Stein Rokkan , Angus Campbell , Per Torsvik , Henry Valen
The political elite of Iran.
Contemporary Political Science: Toward Empirical Theory.Ithiel de Sola Pool
Educational Ambivalence in Iran
Iran is rare among developing societies, in the intensity of its dilemma resulting from efforts to effect a symbiosis between two divergent traditions--cultural continuity and technological, i.e., Western, innovation. As the Shah himself sees it, “we are both adjusting the technology to our culture and our culture to the technology.” But the “adjustment” proceeds, at best, haltingly with the result that neither of the traditions is especially vit…
Political Elites and Political Cynicism in Iran
Conspiracy Thinking in the Middle East
Conspiracy thinking is defined as a pattern of explanatory reasoning about events and situations of personal, social, and historical significance in which a conspiracy is the dominant or operative actor. While conspiracy thinking exists to some extent probably in every society, the authors note the special prevalence of this type of thinking in the Arab-Iranian-Muslim Middle East, and offer a psychoanalytically based approach to conspiracy thinki…
Iran: A Theory of Revolution from Accounts of the Revolution
Four issues must be articulated and related in order to create a general theory of revolution: revolutionary leadership and organization, mass participation, the nature of revolutionary action, and system response. Recent studies of the Iranian revolution provide abundant descriptive materials relevant to the last three issues, but little to illuminate the nature of the leadership of the revolution or its organization. Few of the studies attempt …
The Rule of the Clerics in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Direct rule by Islamic clerics in Iran is an important new phenomenon in Middle Eastern politics. The legitimacy of clerical rule is based on an ideology developed from Shiite thought by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his neofundamentalist followers. This ideology is embodied in the Iranian Constitution, which institutionalizes rule by Islamic clerics. Their sense of legitimacy has been reinforced by Khomeini's commitment to maintaining clerical…
Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah
The Study of Elite Circulation: Who's on First and What's He Doing There
Political Elites and Political Cynicism in Iran
Self-Objects, Self-Representation, and Sense-Making Crises: Political Instability in the 1980s
This paper presents a psychologically derived theory of revolution based on the notion of crises. It is suggested that a revolution is a phase in a process which may occur when a high proportion of a society experience an inability to construct their worlds in a satisfactory and fulfilling manner. Using psychoanalytic self-psychology, the role of self-objects in this process is specified as is the place of ideology and leadership. Ideology is see…
Educational Ambivalence in Iran
Iran is rare among developing societies, in the intensity of its dilemma resulting from efforts to effect a symbiosis between two divergent traditions--cultural continuity and technological, i.e., Western, innovation. As the Shah himself sees it, “we are both adjusting the technology to our culture and our culture to the technology.” But the “adjustment” proceeds, at best, haltingly with the result that neither of the traditions is especially vit…
Educational Ambivalence in Iran
Iran is rare among developing societies, in the intensity of its dilemma resulting from efforts to effect a symbiosis between two divergent traditions--cultural continuity and technological, i.e., Western, innovation. As the Shah himself sees it, “we are both adjusting the technology to our culture and our culture to the technology.” But the “adjustment” proceeds, at best, haltingly with the result that neither of the traditions is especially vit…
Political Elites and Political Cynicism in Iran
Contemporary Political Science: Toward Empirical Theory.Ithiel de Sola Pool
The political elite of Iran.
Citizens, Elections, Parties: Approaches to the Comparative Study of the Processes of Development.Stein Rokkan , Angus Campbell , Per Torsvik , Henry Valen
The New Ego: Pitfalls in Current Thinking About Patients in Psychoanalysis.Nathan Leites
The Study of Elite Circulation: Who's on First and What's He Doing There
Classes, Elites and Iranian Politics: An Exchange
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Iran: A Theory of Revolution from Accounts of the Revolution
Four issues must be articulated and related in order to create a general theory of revolution: revolutionary leadership and organization, mass participation, the nature of revolutionary action, and system response. Recent studies of the Iranian revolution provide abundant descriptive materials relevant to the last three issues, but little to illuminate the nature of the leadership of the revolution or its organization. Few of the studies attempt …
Self-Objects, Self-Representation, and Sense-Making Crises: Political Instability in the 1980s
This paper presents a psychologically derived theory of revolution based on the notion of crises. It is suggested that a revolution is a phase in a process which may occur when a high proportion of a society experience an inability to construct their worlds in a satisfactory and fulfilling manner. Using psychoanalytic self-psychology, the role of self-objects in this process is specified as is the place of ideology and leadership. Ideology is see…
The Rule of the Clerics in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Direct rule by Islamic clerics in Iran is an important new phenomenon in Middle Eastern politics. The legitimacy of clerical rule is based on an ideology developed from Shiite thought by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his neofundamentalist followers. This ideology is embodied in the Iranian Constitution, which institutionalizes rule by Islamic clerics. Their sense of legitimacy has been reinforced by Khomeini's commitment to maintaining clerical…
Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah
Exaggerating Islam
Conspiracy Thinking in the Middle East
Conspiracy thinking is defined as a pattern of explanatory reasoning about events and situations of personal, social, and historical significance in which a conspiracy is the dominant or operative actor. While conspiracy thinking exists to some extent probably in every society, the authors note the special prevalence of this type of thinking in the Arab-Iranian-Muslim Middle East, and offer a psychoanalytically based approach to conspiracy thinki…
Response to Letter from Dr. Robert M. Dorn
Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)