Faez Dinparasti Saleh
Abstract
The purpose of this article is studying the trend of changes in government size in Iran and analyze it from the perspective of government efficiency in the light of theoretical literature and to examine empirical comparisons with leading economic countries. The article intends to describe the situation ...
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The purpose of this article is studying the trend of changes in government size in Iran and analyze it from the perspective of government efficiency in the light of theoretical literature and to examine empirical comparisons with leading economic countries. The article intends to describe the situation of government size in Iran, to answer the question how the size of government in Iran and its developments can be analyzed? By presenting and comparing government size data in Iran with OECD member countries, high-income countries, high-income middle-income countries and low-income middle-income countries, the article shows that first, the size of public government in Iran has decreased and in contrast to production and supply Direct private goods by the government have been on an upward trend, and secondly, the size of public government, which means exercising sovereign duties and providing public goods in Iran, has become smaller compared to the groups in question. The results of the article show that the size of government in Iran has gone through a trend contrary to the findings of recent studies of political economy to reduce the production of private goods and strengthen the regulatory performance of government and the supply of public goods. The trend of government size changes in Iran in the period under review is consistent with the theoretical requirements of the supply-oriented approach, according to which the change in government size is more a function of government requirements than a demand of citizens.
Faez Dinparasti Saleh
Abstract
he aim of this article is to analyze the fourth, fifth and sixth parliament’s transcripts to show that which kind of public policies of the government has been considered by the legislators. The conceptual framework of Almond, Powell and Mundt is used to determine the policies which were significant ...
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he aim of this article is to analyze the fourth, fifth and sixth parliament’s transcripts to show that which kind of public policies of the government has been considered by the legislators. The conceptual framework of Almond, Powell and Mundt is used to determine the policies which were significant according to parliament members. The content analysis method is used on the representatives’ pre-agenda speeches, their notifications to administration, their inquiries from ministers and interrogation of ministers and at last their proposals of annual budget. The present research shows that despite different majorities in these three parliaments, representatives in each of them focused totally on the governmental aspects and the social issues have not been considered. According to this paper among different policies of government more than three quarters of MPs actions appertain to distributive policies and most of them have been confined to distributive policies at the local level instead of the national level. It means that extractive policies, symbolic policies and also regulative policies have almost been neglected by MPs. In spite of the constitution’s emphasis on the representatives’ task of inquiring into all the national affairs, they have only focused on their own electorate.
