Analysis of political, social and professional contexture of Islamic Consultative Assembly’s representatives; first to five periods

Political elites are one of the affecting factors in any political system. Islamic Consultative Assembly includes the Islamic Republic’s political elites. Therefore, the present study tries to analyze the political and social contexture of the people’s representatives during the first five-periods of Islamic Consultative Assembly with an analytical-comparative approach in order to realize the reasons and causes of the political movements in Iran. Moreover, it answers to these essential questions that what political and social combination have the people’s representatives had during first to fifth periods of Islamic Consultative Assembly? Furthermore, fundamentally, what are the differences and similarities between the aforementioned periods from the viewpoint of political and social contexture? To answer to these questions, in addition to introducing a description of the political contexture of representatives in these periods and their political and sectarian dependency, the representatives of five periods of Islamic Consultative Assembly are studied from the viewpoints of age, sexual and educational distribution and representation experience. The results of this research can facilitate the analysis of the reasons and causes of the political movements in Iran in addition to clarifying the trends of political and social developments in the determined historical section.