انتخابات مجلس شورای اسلامی

The desirable electoral system of the Islamic Council is one of the most important issues that has always been the concern of policy makers, legislators and the legal community. This importance caused the notification of the general election policies in 2015 to specify the necessary criteria for amending the law of the parliament elections. Examining the background of this issue shows that in the context of the parliamentary electoral system, the identification of the ideal model based on general election policies has not been investigated so far, and for this reason, this work qualifies as innovative. Also, considering the position of the general policies of the system in the normative hierarchy of the country, which according to Article 110, Clause 2 of the Constitution, is under the authority of that authority to supervise their proper implementation, and that based on Clause 15 of the General Legislation-Information Policies of 2018- Obviously, one of the priorities of legislation by the Islamic Council should be the implementation of general policies, the subject of this article is considered a necessity. In this article, descriptive-analytical method is used. The results of this research show that the single-seat majority electoral system has been introduced as a desirable model and is more compatible with the electoral criteria mentioned in general election policies, whose legislative preparations have also been proposed in the government and parliament.

Elections are one of the most important indicators of democratic systems in the world today. This article tries to examine the factors and variables affecting the criteria of the people of Borujen for the selection of candidates for the Islamic Consultative Assembly. In this regard, the main question of the present article is: "What are the variables affecting the criteria of the people of Borujen for the selection of candidates for the Islamic Consultative Assembly?" To answer this question, by reviewing various theories, independent variables were identified that were thought to affect the criteria for selecting parliamentary candidates. Research Method This article is a survey research method. The data collection tool is a researcher-made questionnaire and the data analysis technique is factor analysis and multiple regression. By factor analysis, 11 main components of the variables were extracted and their relationship with the dependent variable was tested. Hypotheses are tested using multivariate regression using the Enter method. The research findings indicate that: Partisanship with a beta value of 1.5377, reference groups with a beta value of 1.195, individual evaluation of statesmen and the system with a beta value of 1.066, utilitarianism with a beta value of 0.895, previous elections with a beta value of 0.871 and evaluation variable Other ethnic groups with a beta value of -0.234 have a significant effect on the selection criteria of candidates.

One of the main components and characteristics of democratic systems, which is the manifestation of the sovereignty of the people and the right of the people to determine the fate of their country, is to hold elections and refer to public votes in various forms. This article is an attempt to explain the role of elections - as a political transformation - in the sovereignty of the people, which is examined in five areas: occurrence, origin, scope, method of implementation and limit. Therefore, the present article seeks to answer the main question of how the role of the electoral process in the sovereignty of the people can be assessed and analyzed by looking at the elections to the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran and how its components can be identified. Accordingly, using the descriptive-analytical method and using library method for data collection, the subject has been explained and analyzed. Finally, it was concluded that: elections, as a political transformation, are the main mechanism for the rotation of power and the participation of the people of the society in the decisions of their country - both directly and indirectly. In a peaceful way and from the bottom and within the society, this mechanism leads to changes in the micro-levels, and its implementation method is short-term and periodic. In fact, the purpose of the electoral process is, for the most part, transition from non-democratic systems and to establish and expand democratic institutions. At the same time, the people's sovereignty in the electoral process has been equivalent to their political participation, the precondition of which is "political socialization."

In recent years a lot of parties and candidates competing in this arena have turned to using marketing techniques. That is why such terms as personal marketing, political marketing and campaigns marketing are used in the meantime. This study aims to explore the effect of political marketing mix on voter’s intention based on demographic characteristic in 10th parliament election in Tehran. According to unlimited number of statistical population, a sample consisting of 385 voters of 10th parliament election were selected and investigated by using unlimited statistical population formula. Method of the research is based on descriptive surveyresearch and is an applied study. The conceptual model is conducted based on Political marketing mix which consists of political product, political promotion, political place, and political price and demographic factors including gender, occupation, income, education and age. The results of the research showed that each aspect of promotions, product, price and location of the political marketing mix has a significant effect on voters' intentions. Also, demographic factors that were considered as a moderator variable showed that age and gender had no significant effect, while education, occupation and income had a significant effect.

Political parties are among the most important political institutions in each democratic country. Many of researchers believe that democracy can exist without strong and efficient political parties. Unfortunately, in Iran political parties are very weak. Weakness of political parties in Iran can has different reasons. But on factor that is very important, but often ignored, is electoral system. In this article we try to explain the impact of parliamentary electoral system on the political parties and party system in Iran.

Electoral systems are among the most important legal and political institutions in every democratic countries. In recent years، various and numerous researches and studies that were conducted by political science researchers on the electoral system in different countries obviously have shown that the institution of electoral systems has profound and long lasting effects on different aspects of political life of a country. In our country، despite the paramount importance of electoral systems، there have not still been comprehensive and thorough researches and studies on the type of electoral system employed in previous elections after Islamic Revolution and also on political repercussions and effects of such systems. In this paper، attempts have been made that in addition to studying different types of electoral systems that are being used in democratic countries worldwide، the types of electoral systems implemented in previous elections after Islamic revolution be investigated. This results reveal that the electoral system employed in parliamentary election in Iran has been a two-round electoral system which is an instance of majority electoral systems.