A Reflection on the Meaning of the "Model" in the Islamic-Iranian Model of Progress: Contemplations from Public Policy Perspective

Although Iran has been involved in several development programs before and after the revolution, the issue of development has never been a serious concern in Iranian scientific communities. Despite the fact that several academic fields such as economics, sociology, public administration, and political science have apparently been responsible for this subject, no significant progress has been made in practice. Conceivably one of the main reasons is the lack of a coherent move and synergetic interaction among all involved fields pertinent to the subject of development. In the meantime, some fields collect and facilitate the collective movement of all fields toward a system of development models, in which multi-model system is replaced with mono-model system and public minds are being prepared for this change. One of the most preeminent fields for this change is public policy. The mechanism of this change is discusses in this paper.