Theoretical Analysis of the Politicized Institutional Analysis and Development (PIAD) framework with the approach of urban flood management

Floods are one of the most complex natural disasters from the perspective of recognizing,understanding, managing, and controlling its consequences, and the manifestations of thisphenomenon, are many times higher in the Asia continent, especially in Iran. Urban issues incountries like Iran have always been one of the most central issues of human life and civil decisionmaking.institutional approach is one of the newest scientific approaches to responding to majorissues such as development, planning, and crisis. Until now, developed institutional evaluationframeworks, such as the development evaluation framework and Politicized Institutional Analysisand Development have not been introduced to the flood crisis in the Iran area. The main goal ofthe present study is the theoretical and methodological introduction of PIAD and its adaptation tothe theoretical and practical context of the flood phenomenon and its management. This currentstudy is qualitative research and relies on documentary research methods based on analysis ofthe evaluator-oriented institutional frameworks. The researcher identifies that PIAD has beenexplained by comparing the two frameworks of its underlying and superstructure dimensions,including two new components “politico-economic context” and “discourse” and also its useabilityon flood phenomenon has been described.the findings of the research indicate the presence of a model on the adaptation of PIAD to thephenomenon of urban floods. In future studies, other kinds of institutional-based comprehensiveframework analysis can be introduced theoretically and methodologically and PAID frameworkcan be operationally implemented in one of the river cities of the country.