Volume 2, Issue 2, 2021, Pages 143 - 154

Author(s) : Meysam Darabi* ¹ , Abbas Ali Rahbar ²

Abstract :
The history of activities of political parties and phenomena of factionalism in Iran, is very well represented in the functional failure of this important political phenomenon in recent century and even at the moment. Political researchers have always following to express the causes of these inefficiencies and have recounted different causes in the political, historical, economic, cultural and legal fields for this problem. One of the important issues of political parties in Iran is non-embeddedness. In spite of open political space in some period of time, as yet, has not formed any defined parties or structured and party specific work in Iran. The historical evidence and the results of limited studies carried out in recent years represents significant distrust of people and youth to political parties. People don't have positive opinion about parties in recent century and mainly are unwilling to party participation for the reasons such as power seeking, elitism, self - being, dependency on government and foreign powers, deviation in promises of parties and announcement programs and some items like this. People consider the parties generally authoritarian and indifferent to the people and the collective material. This study aims to investigate the principles of criticism and rethinking of inefficiency in political parties of Iran by descriptive - analytical method as well as using library resources

Keywords :
political parties, inefficiency, participation, partisanship