State Building in Post- Revolutionary Iran: A Historical Institutionalism Approach

State building is a long, complicated and challenging trend everywhere. Iran’s revolution as a most populist revolution in 20thcentury, heavily changed the fundamental aspects of political order in the country and helped to set new institutions in power and state structures after revolution. These institutions were helpful in harnessing extreme domestic and foreign crisis that were emerged soon after the revolution. The article tests this claim as a hypothesis that Iranian revolutionary movement showed its high capabilities in institution building from down and that helpedemerged power vacuum, as a result of collapsed former state and absence of a revolutionary party, was filled easily. Building new state and managing crisis affected heavily from this kind of state building. The article studies making some new governmental institutions and revolutionary organs and emerging new political behavior in first years after revolution and searches the causes of their successful functions in managing crisis and sustaining new emerged political order.