A Study of the Effect of Supportive Policies of the Ninth to Twelfth Governments on the Status of the Economic Misery Index (Case Study: Guilan Province)

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Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 August 2025

Document Type: Scientific-Research

DOI: 10.22067/social.2024.89159.1541

Authors

Soqra Azmayesh Asiyabsari¹; Mehrdad Mohammadian^{* 2}; Mohamad Mehdi Labibi³; Nader Haghshenas⁴

¹PhD student of Sociology at Khalkhal Islamic Azad University

²Assistant Professor of the Department of Sociology, Khalkhal Islamic Azad University

³Assistant Professor of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch

⁴Assistant Professor of Demography, Population Economics and Human Capital Research Department, Country Population Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Poverty and misery are among the problems of today's societies. The policies of different governments can have a significant impact on solving this problem. After the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, health, education, housing, welfare, and social security policies as important and influential dimensions of supportive policies have been influenced by the orientations, approaches, ideology, and intellectual currents governing the policies of governments. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to study the role of supportive policies (housing, health, education, welfare, and social security) of the Ahmadinejad and Rouhani governments in the poverty and economic misery of citizens. The research method used in this research is qualitative and the phenomenological approach has been used as the operational method of the research. To collect the research data, semi-structured in-depth interviews were used. The statistical population of the study is key experts and informants in the housing, education, health, welfare and social security sectors of Gilan province. The sampling method is purposeful and after the interviews were saturation, the sample size was 24 people. The findings of the research indicate that from the participants' point of view, the social-supportive policies (education, housing, health, welfare, and social security) of the Ahmadinejad and Rouhani governments have not been very successful, and these policies have increased the poverty and economic misery of citizens. In fact, the social-supportive policies of the Ahmadinejad and Rouhani governments, despite being influenced by two different political currents, have been involved in contradiction, confusion, and turmoil,

Keywords

Supportive Policies; Poverty; Economic Misery; Ahmadinejad Government; Rouhani Government

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