Obstacles to monitoring local administrative units and their balance requirements in Iraq after 2003

Abstract

The supervisory process is one of the pillars of the political system in administration, and the methods of the control process, its organization, its areas of competence and its levels differ from one country to another, because it is affected by a number of societal factors. In view of the circumstances related to the nature of rebuilding the Iraqi state after 2003 and its political and administrative reorganization, the experience faced problems in the applications of decentralization, which caused a defect and distortion of the experience and the main purpose of creating a decentralization system. The most important of these problems were embodied in the issue of control, which made the administrative system in Iraq Distorted by the lack of an explicit provision on the monitoring of the executive authority, as well as the overlap of other intertwined factors between partisan, cultural and conceptual, that affected the monitoring process practiced by the central government on governorates that are not organized in a region, as well as raised many problems between the center and the governorates that are not organized in a region since 2003 AD. Therefore, the research deals with analyzing the foundations of the imbalance in the issue of oversight, showing the levels of its obstacles, and the most important mechanisms for dealing with the practice of the central government over local units in Iraq.