خلاصه ماشینی:
The author, by describing the problems that existed in the way of institutionalizing guilds in Iran, considers the traditional market culture and state intervention as the main historical obstacles to guiding the guild system toward civil society.
He considers the inability of the Islamic Republic to deal with fundamental economic and social problems and issues of Iran, and the country's isolation in the world, as factors in the regime's internal crisis.
Hooshang Amirahmadi, in his writing, addresses the description of contemporary social discourses in Iran, the nature of bureaucracy, and the way connections and communication networks function within the system of the Islamic Republic.
He considers the growth and continuity of civil society in Iran conditional upon fundamental transformations in the cultural and value systems of society, the balanced expansion of state capabilities and the power of non-governmental forces and institutions, and the avoidance of sudden and violent political changes.