Examining the Effect of Political Factors and their Interaction with Economic Factors and policies of the government on the Defense Budget of I.R. Iran

Riazi, Mahdi; Saleh Esfehani, Asghar; Tabesh, Hamidreza

Examining the Effect of Political Factors and their Interaction with Economic Factors and policies of the government on the Defense Budget of I.R. Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ . Ph.D., Department of Production Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

² Associate Professor, Department of Strategic Management, Faculty of Strategic Management, Supreme National Defense University, Tehran, Iran.

³ M.A., Department of Accounting, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to examine the role of political factors and their interaction with economic factors on the defense budget Islamic Republic of Iran via the policies adopted by the government. This paper can be classified as mixed exploratory research and is carried out in two qualitative and quantitative stages. The statistical population of this research is comprised of managers and experts active in economic and defense fields. Accordingly, the research sample was chosen through a selective non-random sampling method, identifying 17 experts. Subsequently, we used the Available Cluster Sampling method to identify a statistical sample of 385 people and managed to collect answers to 320 questionnaires.
The results indicate that political factors have a significant (at the error level of less than 1 percent) effect on the defense budget of the Republic of Iran, through shaping the policies adopted by the government. Furthermore, the intensity of the influence of political factors on the defense budget through the policies adopted by the government is estimated at 0.333. On the hand, we find that the effect of economic factors on the defense budget through the policies adopted by the government is significant at the error level of less than 1% and estimate their intensity of its impact at 0.538. Finally, we find that the resultant effect of the interaction between political factors and economic factors on the defense budget to be not significant at the error level of less than 1%, hence the resultant effect of the interaction between these two factors on the defense budget could not be confirmed.

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