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vakilian H, derakhshan D. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Property Disclosure Laws in Reducing Administrative Corruption in an comparative Approach. دیدگاههای حقوقی 2017; 22 (77 and 78) :225-250
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1- Allammeh Tabatabayi , hassanvakilian@gmail.com
2- allameh tabatabayi university
2- allameh tabatabayi university
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Making transparency and accountability among public officials of the state on the one hand, and preventing administrative corruption, on the other hand, are good governance criteria. One of the factors of guaranteeing the above elements is approval of laws that the declaration of assets of the officials, which plays a significant role in achieving the above principles. These laws should include content and announcement items, accountable authorities, trustee responsible for asset declarations, appropriate enforcement guaranty, review of statements, and disclosure of information about assets of public authorities. In our country, the "Law on the Investigation of Assets of Officials, Authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran" has been approved in 1394. The main question of the present article is whether this law has the effectiveness of fighting with administrative corruption and the impact on its reduction, and if not what requirements should be added to it. In response to this question, in this study, by using the library method and using the texts and laws of various countries such as the United States, Britain, France, Romania, and South Korea, it came to the conclusion that this law has many advantages and disadvantages that Its strengths can be seen in the comprehensiveness of asset items of the authorities, including disadvantages such as failure to provide a guarantee of compliance with the offenders, the failure to disclose public statements, the failure to specify the mechanism for verifying the statements, that the absence of these extensions Facilitates corruption.
Making transparency and accountability among public officials of the state on the one hand, and preventing administrative corruption, on the other hand, are good governance criteria. One of the factors of guaranteeing the above elements is approval of laws that the declaration of assets of the officials, which plays a significant role in achieving the above principles. These laws should include content and announcement items, accountable authorities, trustee responsible for asset declarations, appropriate enforcement guaranty, review of statements, and disclosure of information about assets of public authorities. In our country, the "Law on the Investigation of Assets of Officials, Authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran" has been approved in 1394. The main question of the present article is whether this law has the effectiveness of fighting with administrative corruption and the impact on its reduction, and if not what requirements should be added to it. In response to this question, in this study, by using the library method and using the texts and laws of various countries such as the United States, Britain, France, Romania, and South Korea, it came to the conclusion that this law has many advantages and disadvantages that Its strengths can be seen in the comprehensiveness of asset items of the authorities, including disadvantages such as failure to provide a guarantee of compliance with the offenders, the failure to disclose public statements, the failure to specify the mechanism for verifying the statements, that the absence of these extensions Facilitates corruption.
Keywords: Key words: public officials, administrative corruption, asset declarations, verifications, public disclosure
Type of Study: Applicable Research |
Subject:
General Law
Received: 2017/11/28 | Revised: 2019/01/02 | Accepted: 2018/02/28 | Published: 2018/04/16 | ePublished: 2018/04/16
Received: 2017/11/28 | Revised: 2019/01/02 | Accepted: 2018/02/28 | Published: 2018/04/16 | ePublished: 2018/04/16
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