Administration's Responsibility for Administrative Delegation in the Decentralized System in Iraq

Abstract

The Iraqi Constitution adopts the principle of decentralization in government administration in a step that constituted a qualitative shift in the development of the country’s political system. The Constitution guaranteed the regions and governorates that are not organized into a region great independence and broad powers that were not witnessed in previous eras. Decentralization is represented by granting the governor wide and multiple powers in order to manage the governorate. Independently, there are some powers granted to the higher authorities without the authorities in the lower authorities. However, it happens that the administrative head or the administrative official delegates the administrative head or the administrative official in the lower authorities to carry out a specific work on his behalf. Administrative delegation is a basic and important means of distributing jurisdiction among the members of the administrative apparatus, When the higher authority resorts to transferring part of its authority or authority to a subordinate, in order to dispose of some matters or administrative issues specified in the delegation decision and based on a legal text, the responsibility in delegation is gradual and dual.

This research paper highlights some of the problems that can be encountered about the extent of the responsibility of the administrative official in the governorates (the governor) for the work delegated by the higher authority and the type of responsibility achieved in terms of their work according to this type of responsibility.