Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Mohammad Javad Hosseini ¹
• Iraj Hosseini Sadrabadi ²
• Mojtaba Hemmati ¹

¹ M.A. in Public Law, Administrative Procedure Law and Supervision and Inspection Management, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor of Public and International Law at the University of Judicial Sciences and Administrative Services, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The transition from autocratic governments and the movement of societies towards accepting the role and will of the people in managing public affairs and ruling over their own destiny will lead to the emergence of the idea of democracy, and this paradigm has accepted many changes and developments in the long run of time to guarantee the participation of the people in the society. . One of the new types of democracy is participatory democracy, which relies on and emphasizes the continuous activism of citizens in the administration of public affairs and transforms them from merely electing public officials to participants in the administration of public affairs. In participatory democracy, people's participation goes beyond elections, and in the field of urban life and issues such as how to plan and prioritize public budgets, how to organize urban construction affairs, how and how to prepare and pass laws and regulations, public policies, direct intervention of citizens and They are continuous and monitor the performance of public officials. This type of democracy requires creating freedom in accessing administrative documents and information, surveying people and recognizing the right to participate in all public areas of society for them. In this article, in a descriptive and analytical way, using library sources, it has been used to draw the face and explain the principles and roots of participatory democracy

Keywords

• Participatory democracy
• democratic society. Freedom of access to documents and information
• survey
• participation right

Main Subjects

• Public Rights

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