Critical and Practical Study of Civil Society and Economic Corruption and Transparency in Iran

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Professor of Political Sciences, Shiraz University

2 MA Graduated in Political Sciences, Shiraz University

Abstract

Economic transparency is one of the most important indexes in democracies. Non control of economic corruption led to weakening of political legitimacy of government. By explanation method and interview to Shiraz"s academic Elites, in this study, has been tried to answer this question: how much is successful and acceptable the function of civil society in it's function and combat to economic corruption and why? The main finding of this study shows the unacceptable function of civil society in Iran due to these reasons: impediments in governmental structures and absence of legal, possible and encouragement opportunities and in other hand due to weakness and dysfunctions in civil society such as none serious practical performance and action in pay attention to political transparency to general demand and shaping a social movement and absent of public opinion In the end, practical recommendation be noted in modification and enforcement of surveillance mechanism and transparency.

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Research Letter of Political Science
Volume 16, Issue 4 - Serial Number 64
December 2021
Pages 115-144

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  • Receive Date: 21 July 2021
  • Revise Date: 14 December 2021
  • Accept Date: 15 January 2022

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