Journal of Political Strategy

The Impact of Regional Developments and the Rentier Government on the Political Culture of the Saudi People

Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Summer 2017
Pages 119-139
Journal of Political Strategy

Document Type : Original Independent Original Article

Authors

hamid salehi 1
hosein norouzi amiri 2

1 Associate Professor of Political Science, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

2 Master of Regional Studies in Persian Gulf, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
Throughout history, most of the governments that have come to power in the Arabian Peninsula have defined the ruling relationship with the people as a master-slave relationship and did not give the least rights to the citizens (subjects) in order to maintain power and maintain their position. In general, it can be said that the political culture of the Saudi people was a limited political culture, but with the developments that took place in the 1970s and 1990s, Saudi society moved towards a subordinate political culture. In this article, the author intends to examine the impact of regional developments on the political culture of the Saudi people using the model of Almond and his colleagues, considering that no proper research has been done on the political culture of the Saudi people in Iran to date. The hypothesis of the present study is that the developments that took place in the region in the 1970s, 1990s and 2003 caused a rapid change in oil prices, which led to extensive economic and social changes due to the rent-seeking of the Saudi government, and ultimately changed the political culture of the Saudi people. From limited level to subordinate.

Keywords

Saudi Arabia
political culture
subordinate political culture
limited political culture
rentier government
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