Identify the reasons for the interference of politics - Administration of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Case study: the relationship between the executive and the legislature in the years 2009-2013

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1 phd. Student, of public administration University of alameh tbatbaie

2 Assistant Professor of public administration University of Tehran

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to investigate the causes of policy-administrative interventions and the problems that have caused these interventions. Problems such as the politicization of the bureaucracy, the loss of the principle, lack of specialization, inefficiency and lack implementation of policies approved and formation of political impasse. This qualitative research that selects the relationship between public administration of the tenth government (2009-2013) and political elected representatives of the legislature as a case study. Using the theme-based analysis of semi-structured interviews with 25 political parliamentary choices, general executives and those who have both experienced the role that with Selection of contributors by snowball method. The results of this research show that the institutional and structural factors related to the political structure, Social factors, personality and personality factors, political agents in that particular period played a decisive role as the reasons for the formation of this destructive politics – Administration

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Iranian Journal of Public Policy
Volume 3, Issue 4
2017
Pages 151-166

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