A Meta-analysis of Studies Related to Iranian Political Culture: From the Constitutional Revolution to the Islamic revolution

This article attempts to provide a picture of existing attitudes on political culture in Iran with a review of the research done over the last hundred years. The findings of the research show that most of these studies are based on positivist view and in the framework of Almond and Verba theory. From the methodological point of view, most of them are based on survey or documentary-historical methods. Studies related to political culture in Iran during this period show that Iranian political culture has been relatively stable over the past hundred years; political culture is viewed in the sense of national character; political culture is an obstacle to political development; and, of course, these studies suffer from some kind of Orientalist constructivism.