Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Allameh Tabatabaei University
Abstract
This article attempts to analyze the concepts of "Rent" and its effect on different parts of a state's political, economic and social affairs. The author presents the negative aspects of mob politics and rentier states. In this regard it is assumed that rentier states could challenge democracy. So it is verified that state relations with their societies could be very vulnerable in a rentier atmosphere. Economic development and political progress will be stopped in a rentier state. The rent could come by some mineral investment similar to petrol and gas which could address issues like immigration, poverty, and addiction.
