Title of article :
Feasible Study of Provincialization of Islamic Consultative Assembly Elections by Presenting a Model of a Proportional Electoral System
Author/Authors :
Alishahi , Hamzeh Department of Political Science and International Relations - Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran , Mirzazadeh, Faramarz Department of Political Science - Islamic Azad University Ilam Branch, Ilam, Iran , Khodaverdi, Hassan Department of Political Science and International Relations - Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
Elections today, as one of the pillars of democracy, play an important role in citizen partici-
pation and oversight of the performance and decisions of the agents of political systems. In
the meantime, the parliamentary elections of each country have a different position accord-
ing to the model of the electoral system of that country. In Iran, the parliament has a history
of more than a century, but there are still shortcomings in the elections, the role of the exist-
ing electoral system (majority), which is in the first election law of the country since 1906 is
important. To correct the current shortcomings of the Islamic Consultative Assembly elec-
tions and to maintain the importance of the diversity of constituencies in the country, the
plan to provincialize the constituencies from the fifth parliament onwards has always been
proposed as an alternative to the current system; Which has not been implemented yet for
various reasons. This research seeks to use the descriptive-analytical method to evaluate the
possibility of replacing the model of the proportional electoral system (in non-single-seat
constituencies) with the current system based on the provincial of the Islamic Consultative
Assembly elections. In other words, it seeks to answer the question of whether it is possible
to replace the current proportional electoral system model (in non-single-seat constituen-
cies) with the current majority system based on the provincialization of the Islamic Consul-
tative Assembly elections? Our assumption is that among the majority, proportional and
hybrid models, the proportional model under provincialization can better meet the needs of
today's Iranian society. In this research, data collection is the use of books, articles, and
electronic resources.
Keywords :
Islamic Consultative Assembly elections , provincialization , proportional elections , majority , electoral formula
Journal title :
International Journal of Political Science