POLITICAL SCIENCE STATUS; NOW AND FUTURE (Evaluation of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Iranian Political Science Association, March, 2017)

The annual conferences of the Iranian Political Science Association started in 2007 and now after ten years is yet one of the regular programs of this association. The last of these types of conferences was held in March 2017 with the title of "The status of political science; now and the future". The main question of this article is how much this conference complies with the standards of an annual conference of a scientific association, and how relevant the content reflects the one-year achievements of the Iranian political science. The research methodology is descriptive-analytic. The results show that the conference reflects somewhat the one-year achievements of the political science in Iran, indicating some signs of the improvement and progress of this knowledge and is consistent with the standards of scientific conferences. In addition, participants in the conference, on behalf of the majority of the Iranian political science community, analyzed Iran's specialized political issues in the context of the conventional knowledge of political science, and on the contrary, a small minority would consider the fundamental and material development of this discipline. Meanwhile the "opening and closing speeches", "selected articles in the form of scientific speeches" and "abstracts of conferences," show the Iranian political science is in the crisis condition and the inefficiency of this science is because of the independence of the present Iranian authorities from interpretations, rules and their findings representing the main problem of this branch of science. Improvement of the status of political science in Iran lays only on the acceptance of political science as the authority in the field of general policy making and good governance rules on behalf of dominant political system.