Pathology of the Country Divisions System at the Local Level

پژوهش ‎های جغرافیای سیاسی

Volume 8, Issue 1 - Serial Number 29, June 2023, Pages 69-91   

Document Type: مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/pg.2022.73091.1097

Authors

Shamci Salehpour^{* 1}; Vahid Riyahi²; Farhad Azizpour²

¹PhD in Geography and Rural Planning, Khwarazmi University, Tehran, Iran

²Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Rural Planning, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The political organization of space in each country is carried out in the form of the country division system. The present study was conducted with the aim of pathology of the country division system at the local level. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and information analysis is performed by discourse analysis. The first, the results showed that the first governing ideology of country division system at the local level is a centralized political system that has not led to the formation of an efficient system in the lowest layers of the country's divisions. Secondly, the discourses Mission-Territory interference, weakness of structural-functional unity, weakness of supply system in the needs of villages, the marginalizing of the village in the structure of the system country divisions, the lack of role-playing of micro-levels of division, weakness of the participatory system, inefficiency of laws and regulations, inefficient management, weak distribution of financial-credit resources and governance from up to bottom damaged the system of national divisions at the local level and declined the position of the village  in this system. Finally, "the type of ideology that governs the system of national divisions", the contradiction between the "political spatial structure of the country" and "The inadequacy of the pattern of country divisions in its lowest layers (village)" was identified as the ideological uncertainty.

Keywords

Pathology; Country Divisions; Local Level; Village; Uromia

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