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Iran: Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics
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Parliamentary Politics in Revolutionary Iran: The Institutionalization of Factional Politics, by Bahman Baktiari. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. xiii + 237 pages. Appends. to p. 244. Notes to p. 261. Bibl. to p. 266. Index to p. 282. $49.95.
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The constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran is a valiant-some would say, contorted-attempt to synthesize democracy with theocracy, popular sovereignty with clerical authority, the rights of man with divine rights, and Montesquieu's philosophy with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's concept of velayat-e faqih jurist's guardianship). Parliament, officially known as the Islamic Majlis, is …
