Document Type : Academicm and Research

Authors

• AHMAD HABIBNEZHAD ¹
• samira khoeni ²

¹ دانشیار گروه حقوق عمومی پردیس فارابی دانشگاه تهران

² دانشجوی دکترای حقوق عمومی پردیس فارابی دانشگاه تهران

Abstract

Seyed Ahmad Habibnezhad
Samira khoini

Referendum, as one of the most important means of exercising the right to self-determination and citizen participation, has always been a matter of concern and has a religious basis as well. But there is an important question what are the Criterion of a "good referendum" - as a mirror of the will of citizens - and what principles and rules should be put in place to get a genuine view of citizens? In this paper, using a descriptive-analytical method and with the experience of different countries, it is attempted to consider the absence of a "referendum legal system" in Iran and the principles and criteria of a good referendum on the processes of this dereferendum legal system" in Iran and the principles and criteria of a good referendum on the processes of this democratic phenomenon. Considered and emphasized on the necessity of more legal guidance on the phenomenon of referendum

Keywords

• referendum
• democracy
• Constitution
• Good referendum principles
• Sovereignty of the people