نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 گروه علوم سیاسی، واحد رشت، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، رشت، ایران.
2 گروه علوم سیاسی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تهران، ایران.
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s theory of political judgment and multi-wave data from the World Values Survey (1999–2022), this article conceptualizes Iran’s political crisis not primarily as an institutional failure or ideological conflict, but as a structural erosion of intersubjective judging capacity. In Arendt’s account, political judgment is a reflective capacity exercised within human plurality and a shared world, requiring an “enlarged mentality” and the preservation of common understanding; it cannot be reduced to moral absolutism or instrumental rationality. Empirical findings show a sustained decline in tolerance of dissent and social trust in Iran over the past two decades, alongside an increasing tendency to evaluate the legitimacy of protest actions through identity-based and moral alignment rather than public criteria. Path analysis indicates that these patterns are largely mediated by the “moralization of difference”—a process through which political disagreements are reframed as non-negotiable moral deviations. Comparative analysis with Turkey and Egypt highlights the greater intensity and synchronicity of these dynamics in Iran. The article argues that, without restoring shared political judgment and curbing the moralization of politics, institutional reforms are likely to remain fragile, while political life continues to reproduce cycles of exclusion and distrust.
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