Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

With the initiation of the new science of policy-making in Iran, efforts have been made to apply it in the different areas which can lend themselves to policy-making. One of these areas is the area of science. Emphasizing on the human sciences, this paper investigates the scientific policies in the post Islamic Revolution period and seeks to answer these questions: what things were taken into consideration in formulating the policies on the human science? What changes did scientific policy undergo? And what models did it follow? Considering the emphasis on top secret documents, the research method of this paper is content analysis and in some cases, discourse analysis. The results show that there has been a gradual development in the world of science in the post Islamic Revolution period, besides the use of varied models in policy-making and prevalence of the domination of subject policy when the human sciences is in question.