Factors Effective in Promoting the Supervisory Dimension of the Islamic Consultative Assembly in Preventing Administrative Corruption and Its Strategies

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
hossien mir-mohammad-sadeqi 1
seyyed abolhasan razavi 2
1 prof. criminal law and criminology, shahid beheshti unuversity.
2 Phd candidate. Criminal law and criminology. Islamic azad university, central tehran branch,
10.22084/rjir.2025.30129.3850
Abstract
Background and purpose: Administrative corruption brings destructive social and economic effects that one of the main causes and factors is failure of regulatory institutions. The Islamic Consultative Assembly, as one of these institutions, has several roles and duties in dealing with administrative corruption and can prevent it by using its monitoring tools. The purpose of the current research is to explain the supervisory dimensions of the Islamic Consultative assembly in preventing administrative corruption and the strategies of this institution in performing this task.
Methodology: the method has been used in this research is descriptive and analytical method and was written by using a documentary and library method.
Question: The main question is: What are the monitoring strategies of the Islamic Council for the prevention of administrative corruption?
Findings: The findings of the research show that the supervisory strategies of the Islamic Council include: clarifying decision-making processes, managing conflicts of interest, promoting the role of civil and public institutions in preventing and fighting administrative corruption, interacting and cooperating with International institutions and organizations, improving the performance of supervisory bodies in line with the rule of law, institutionalizing the culture of transparency, health and justice.
Results: The results indicate that the Islamic Council as the authority for approving laws and monitoring the implementation of laws; It is one of the main and important supervisory institutions in the country and it can prevent administrative corruption by adopting specific strategies through monitoring tools that are foreseen in the current laws and regulations for representatives in the supervisory dimension.
Keywords
prevention
administrative corruption
monitoring
monitoring tools
Islamic Council
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