Investigation and Analysis of Administrative-Territorial Divisions Problems in Contemporary Iran

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Authors

• Ali Valigholizadeh ¹
• Mohammad Yuosefi Shatoori ²

¹ Associate Professor of Political Geography, Maragheh University, Maragheh, Iran

² M. A. Student in political geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22067/pg.2022.73342.1101

Abstract

During the last few decades, formation of the center-periphery model in the structure of political divisions in Iran has caused the marginal regions of the country experience spatial, political and social rupture other regions of the country along with the intensification of deprivation and underdevelopment. . Therefore, the aim of the current research is to identify the main problems of administrative-territorial divisions in contemporary Iran focused on the influence of the simple governance system. In other words, this research discusses the most important problems affected by the centralized simple governance structure for the administrative-territorial divisions and organizations of the country. According to the results of this research, the most important problems of administrative-territorial divisions and organizations in contemporary Iran are ignorance of spatial-geographical justice, weak formation of national development, penetration of informal factors, weakness of formation of appropriate administrative-management structure, weakness of formation of national solidarity and structural unity and geographical homogeneity, extreme political-spatial centralism in the center and weak attention to geographic-human qualitative criteria. This research is practical in terms of purpose and tries to present an efficient model of territorial-administrative divisions and organizations for the country in a descriptive-analytical method. According to the results of this research, it seems that the "decentralized or simple regional governance-territorial model" is more compatible with Iran's natural and human conditions and can solve the problems of Iran's current political divisions.

Keywords

• Administrative-Territorial Divisions and Organizations
• Country Divisions
• Iran

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