Revival of Researching Political Culture and its Position in Iran

In recent three decades we have been witnessing increasing attention to culture in many fields of social sciences, including political science. Most prominent example of this development is restoration of theoretical research and case studies on political culture. So there has been an increasing volume of different data collection about political culture of various societies by many researchers and research centers. Referring to these developments, the aim of this article is explaining recent increasing importance of researching political culture. So, firstly, we glance through genesis and development of researching political culture since 1950s. Then well try to recognize main factors that caused the revival of researching political culture in last decades of 20th century. Next part of the article introduces some important examples of such restoration, especially some researches and research centers. Finally, we depict characteristics of researching political culture in Iran.