Quarterly Journal of West Asia Political Research
Bi-lingual

A Comparative Study of Industrial Policy-making in the First to Fifth Development Programs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

SAEED SAFI 1
Rajab Izadi 2

1 PhD candidate in political science majoring in public policy ,Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract
The study tries to compare the policy and strategy of industrial development in the first to fifth development plans of the Islamic Republic of Iran with an analytical method and by using the quantitative and qualitative data obtained from the library which have been analyzed by document analysis method. The findings of the research show that in the first development plan, vertical industrial policy and government strategy of the developmental state prevail. In the second program, minimal government strategy and commercial policies are evident, and in the third program, the dominance of monetary policies and minimal government strategy is evident. In the fourth development plan, the predominance of strategic policies and good governance strategy is observed, and finally, in the fifth plan, it is dominated by horizontal industrial policies and good governance strategy. In the review of the executive record of development programs, the first development program has been the most successful program in the field of industrial development, with an annual average of 44.1% for the industry share index in national income growth and an annual average of 14.5% industry share in the GDP.

Keywords

Industrial policy
Industrial development strategy
Industrial development
Development plans
Industrial policy-making

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