Designing a Model for Implementing Judicial Policies in Iran's Judiciary

Abstract

Objective: Implementation of judicial policies is one of the important issues in the judiciary with a major role in ensuring justice and implementing the rule of law. This research aims to design a model to implement judicial policies in Iran's judicial system.Methods: In this research, 26 purposive semi-structured interviews were conducted with elites of the judiciary, and 333 concept codes were obtained accordingly. Applying the thematic analysis of qualitative data, similar concepts were merged or deleted and common themes and patterns related to the topic of research were identified and extracted. The design of the initial model was done at three levels of basic, organizing, and global themes. A three-round fuzzy Delphi survey was carried out to validate the model by aggregating the opinions of 20 experts from the Iranian judiciary and universities collected via a distributed questionnaire among them.Results: Performing the data analysis, 122 basic themes, 36 organizing themes, and 8 main inclusive themes were obtained which formed the theoretical model. According to the achieved results of the present study, the dimension of implementation policies has the most effect on the model of implementing judicial policies. Dimensions of participation of the involved actors, network governance in the justice system, the structure of implementation, empowerment of human resources, personal characteristics of judges, and principles of culture, religion, and citizens, are the following factors influencing the model, respectively.Conclusion: The extracted dimensions and components from the research model are comparable to some religious doctrines and upstream documents. Therefore, such a model can guarantee the progress of the judiciary when being pursued.

Keywords

• implementation
• implementation of policy
• policy
• iran's judiciary