The Analysis of Retirement Policies in the Context of Socio-Political Discourse Coinciding with the Construction Era and Presenting the Future Scenario

Abstract

The analysis of discourse texts during 1989-1997 indicated that the discourse governing this period was of economic development type. Based on this discourse, the main condition of independence was justice, poverty alleviation, continuation of revolution, and economic development. One of the necessary requirements of policy analysis is evaluating the programs of this period according to its governing spirit in the context of contextual discourse. Thus, the objective was explaining the role of socio-political discourse of economic development in the formation of pension funds crisis. In other words, the roots and causes of funds crisis were evaluated in the discourse layer and also the future constructivism was illustrated in form of narration. The findings indicated that the concept of retirement was represented in the discourse context of economic development due to the most important sign of this period, i.e. "production and economic development" with its specific interpretation. The signified being consistent with this sense including the adjustment of human resources, government downsizing, etc., have experienced semantic reduction and have provided the potential of specific orientations on social security, retirement policies, funds crisis accumulation, and transmission of crisis narration to future governments.

Keywords

• economic development
• social policy
• government adjustment
• future constructivism potential
• future narrative discourse