Summary: | Today Decentralization, has been globally accepted as a modern approach in
administration of nation –states. The conviction is that it must be governed and
codified by various principles so that it may serve as guidelines both in theory
and practice and to be applied by commentators, scholars and authorities in
policy-making and law-making process and in shaping various political,
administrative and judicial policies. The principle of administrative freedom of
local units, the principle of priority in implementation by local units, and the
general condition of competence are instances of the principles existing therein.
In Iran, due diligence has neither been paid to such principles in regards with
policy-making and law-making process nor as to any decentralization project
carried out across the country thus far .The reason behind this is probably that
the said principles hardly have any reflection in the countries constitutional –
administrative doctrine . The present article, particularly by making reference to
their status in France jurisdiction, shall use investigative - descriptive approach
as to identify these principles in French administrative law, then it employs
analytic approach in reviewing the absence of such principles in Iran’s law and
the implications thereof
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