The legal pathology of shrinking the government from the point of view of high-handed laws

Elahi, Seyyed Muhammad; Khosravi, Hasan; Saberrad, Mohammad

doi:10.22034/mral.2024.2020844.1572

The legal pathology of shrinking the government from the point of view of high-handed laws

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors

seyyed Muhammad elahi ¹

Hasan Khosravi ²

Mohammad Saberrad ³

¹ Public Law, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

² Department of Public Law, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

³ International Law, Department of Law, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

10.22034/mral.2024.2020844.1572

Abstract

Downsizing the government is one of the strategies of public management, which aims to improve the performance of the government and increase the satisfaction of citizens in many countries of the world. This process means reducing the role and size of the government in the economic, social and political affairs of the society. In the last two decades, Iran has also moved towards shrinking the government. However, government downsizing should be designed and implemented according to the legal requirements of each country. Otherwise, it may lead to serious damage to the legal system and society. High-level laws here refer to the set of laws and regulations that are decisive at the macro and strategic level of the legal and political system of the country. Some of these laws are: the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the vision document of 1404, the five-year development plans, the annual plan and budget law, and the laws enacted by the Islamic Council. Using the method of legal content analysis, this article has done the legal pathology of the downsizing of the government in Iran from the perspective of high-handed laws and suggests appropriate strategies to remedy the harms.

Keywords

Downsizing of the government

legal system

high-handed laws

legal pathology

strategies of downsizing the government

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