Models of political education in women politicians and its impact on political competition at the macro levels (the government board and the Islamic Council).

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, Arak University.

2 Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran.

Abstract

One of the ways to conduction the experiences and skills of political activities in different generations is to be aware of the lived experiences of politicians. The experience of politician acting is differentiated according to the type of political system in each society because the institutional, legal and organizational structures of political systems and on the other hand cultural, historical, religious and mentality characteristics affect the methods of political acting, rules and also its results and achievements. Political education is important as the first and main step for politician activities; So that the types of political education have a great impact on the characteristics of political action which the most important place for it to appear is in political competition. In this paper, using semi-structured interviews and qualitative data analysis and coding by Juliet Corbin and Anselm Strauss method was extracted the central categories of the two concepts of political education and political competition and they were studied in relation to the lived experiences of Iranian women politicians. A total of three models, Follower political education, Combative political education, Citizenship political education was conceptualized and two models of political competition studied in Hidden type and Competition in political authority. Finally, the relationship between political education models and the type of political competition was summarized and analyzed.

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