Iranian Political Science Association Research Letter of Political Science 1735790X 10 1 2015 03 20 Political Culture of Elites of Reza Shah’s Era Political Culture of Elites of Reza Shah’s Era 7 36 251 FA Mohsen Khalili Amir Abbasi Khoshkar Majid Shamsadininejad Journal Article 2014 09 18 <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: ">By examining the role of political culture of elites of Reza Shah’s era in his emerge and fall, the authors have reached this theoretical achievement that the components based on two levels of legitimization of the political system and participation in policy-making processes contaminated by the limited and non-democratic political culture of elites is one of factors for emerge and fall of Reza Shah. The non-democratic components include heroism, loyalty to personalities instead of political institutions, priority of personal interests against structural interests, political distrust and solving political disagreements through omission and destruction. Considering Almond’s theoretical pattern, the authors have depicted a different face of political culture of elites in the Reza Shah’s era. The approach is explanative and the method is documentary-comparative. The data were collected by using library method. </span> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: ">By examining the role of political culture of elites of Reza Shah’s era in his emerge and fall, the authors have reached this theoretical achievement that the components based on two levels of legitimization of the political system and participation in policy-making processes contaminated by the limited and non-democratic political culture of elites is one of factors for emerge and fall of Reza Shah. The non-democratic components include heroism, loyalty to personalities instead of political institutions, priority of personal interests against structural interests, political distrust and solving political disagreements through omission and destruction. Considering Almond’s theoretical pattern, the authors have depicted a different face of political culture of elites in the Reza Shah’s era. The approach is explanative and the method is documentary-comparative. The data were collected by using library method. </span> http://www.ipsajournal.ir/article_251_19f3cd308f1455b3fa09a282e0d496f4.pdf