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Comparative Analysis of City Councils’ s Tasks and Functions in Iran; Based on Findings From Case Study of Amol City Council

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 ASADIE IRADJ |  | Issue Writer Certificate 

Pages

  31-45

Abstract

 everything that city council members do during their term of office can be dealt with in terms of three units or levels of analysis: task, function, and role. Researchers can refer to the relevant legal texts to analysis comparatively the list of duties and tasks of the city councilors. If the analysis and comparison of duties can be made possible through the study of the legal texts, identifying and analysis of functions and roles of the city council is the product of thought and the secondary analysis of the items of legal duties and the actual work of the members. This article seeks to comparatively analyze the tasks and functions of municipal councils in Iran. A comparative analysis of tasks can reveal the gaps in the list of tasks of councils of Iran compared to other cities in the country that are governed by the council-manager model. In addition, it can be expected to elucidate the effect of factors such as maturity of democracy, central government structure, democratic traditions, and the like that contribute to the explanation of these differences. By collecting information on how council members perform their current task list, it can be shown to what extent of efficiency and effectiveness their duties and functions are being performed. To this end, the latest act on councils tasks and duties in Iran, as the charter of municipal governments, is examined and analyzed to determine what extent of power and responsibilities the legislator has assigned to the city councils. There is little serious research on the analysis of the tasks and functions of city councils in Iran, while it is crucial to ensuring the effectiveness of a local government. Here, the four-component conceptual model of Svara has been used for analyzing and understandings functions of city councils in Iran. This conceptual model defines four dimensions for municipal governance: mission, policy, administration and management. The findings indicate that the Amol City Council lacks any statutory plan or official document to define city or municipality’ s vision and mission. Instead of defining policies as a daily decision-making framework, it focuses more on operational decisions and most often on the formulation of rules and regulations for operational matters. In the next dimension (administration), the council cannot take advantage of even the existing legal mechanisms to exercise control on executive body. In the management dimension, the most important of which is the selection of an expert urban manager, there is great difficulty for council in exerting legal and legislate power for the interference of superior power institutions. In short, formulation of policies and exerting control by Amol City Council (generalizable to the equal size cities) seems to face many institutional, organizational, and financial barriers. Finally, it should be remembered that an in-depth and systematic understanding of malfunctions of the municipal councils in Iran needs the attention of scholars in this field as well as the support of Ministry of Interior, which has a serious responsibility to improve the quality of urban management.

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    APA: Copy

    ASADIE, IRADJ. (2019). Comparative Analysis of City Councils’ s Tasks and Functions in Iran; Based on Findings From Case Study of Amol City Council. MEMARI-VA-SHAHRSAZI (HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA ), 24(3 ), 31-45. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/386283/en

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    ASADIE IRADJ. Comparative Analysis of City Councils’ s Tasks and Functions in Iran; Based on Findings From Case Study of Amol City Council. MEMARI-VA-SHAHRSAZI (HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA )[Internet]. 2019;24(3 ):31-45. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/386283/en

    IEEE: Copy

    IRADJ ASADIE, “Comparative Analysis of City Councils’ s Tasks and Functions in Iran; Based on Findings From Case Study of Amol City Council,” MEMARI-VA-SHAHRSAZI (HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA ), vol. 24, no. 3 , pp. 31–45, 2019, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/386283/en

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