Nature Research and Status of “Non-Governmental Public Institutions”: Challenges and Opportunities

Nongovernmental Public institutions are the executive organizations which have been emerged to meet social needs after the Islamic Revolution. Therefore, institutions’ services are influenced by cultural, social and religious values of the society which makes clear central role of non-governmental organizations. But it seems that the legal nature of these institutions in the Iranian Bureaucratic system hasn’t been recognized which leads our (Islamic) government face major challenges to achieve its goals as well as make policies. Therefore, the article aims to define nature as well as status of nongovernmental Public institutions in the Iranian legal system through using analytical-descriptive method. Hence, results of the research show that at first, although nongovernmental public organizations have been established under the state sovereignty like governmental systems which use privileges of its public power to provide public services to the society, these orgs have independent legal personality as well as flexible organizational structure compared with the aforementioned (governmental) orgs. Second, meeting value needs of the society distinguishes the legal personality of institutions even from nongovernmental public organizations. In other words unlike the recent legal entities whose existence originate from the republican form of the government system as well as the current needs of the government, nongovernmental public institutions which are under the helm of the government can provide some public interests which are come from the Islamic nature of political system of our country. Thirdly, nongovernmental public organizations have “administrative, executive and service” natures. Fourth, these organs can be categorized under “executive-administrative” organizations.