Analyzing the Place of Expediency in Elections by Looking at the Two Discourses of the Islamic Revolution and Liberal Democracy

Subject Areas : Political and International Researches Quarterly

ابوالفضل ذکایی ¹ , masoud jafarinejad ² , seyyed mohammadali shariaty ³

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2 - Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, isfahan-khorasgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.

Received: 2023-05-31 Accepted : 2023-06-14 Published : 2023-07-23

Keywords: expediency, Imam Khomeini, elections, Liberal Democracy,

Abstract :

In the current research, it is tried to explain the concept of expediency and examine its application in the electoral process of the two systems of Islamic revolution and liberal democracy. And on this basis, while explaining the structure and components of expediency in Shia jurisprudence and comparing it with the philosophy of the liberalism system, let's explore the nature of the differences, similarities and of course the results of these two approaches.In this work, which is based on the structural analysis and investigation of these two government systems, we found that the explanation of expediency in these two discourses was accompanied by complications and components that ultimately led to the formation of elections. In the Velayat al-Faqih system, this is the ruling of the government that determines the establishment of institutions and the regulation of events in elections, and its ultimate goal is to preserv