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babaee mehr A, salehi farsani A, zeiavarzi Y. The Role of Oversight and Accountability in the Governance System in Ensuring Social Health with an Emphasis on Religious Foundations: A Comparative Study of the Electoral Systems of Iran and the United States. JRH 2026; 14 (1)
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PhD Student, Political Science, Political Thought, Semnan Azad University, Semnan, Iran
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The World Health Organization defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being, the absence of which disrupts the macro-functioning of society. Political health, as a dimension of social health, includes stability, legitimacy, transparency, and accountability in the power structure. From this perspective, political health is also achieved when the mechanisms of oversight and accountability in the governance system prevent corruption, injustice, and deviation from divine or human values. This research aimed to explain the relationship among religion, oversight, and the health of the political system, especially in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States, a liberal democracy. This study employed an analytical-comparative approach with a hermeneutic orientation, and the data were collected through the analysis of religious texts (the Quran and Nahj al-Balagha) and theoretical sources in the fields of good governance and the theory of the separation of powers. The findings show that in Islamic thought, social health, and consequently political health, are based on divine-moral supervision and enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, which leads to endogenous and sustainable reform of society. In contrast, in the liberal system, political health is the result of a system of institutional control and legal accountability that is implemented through the separation of powers and administrative transparency. The study concludes that the model of the Islamic Republic, with its emphasis on divine-moral supervision and its distinct philosophical foundations, may play a more crucial role in ensuring political health by preserving efficiency and public trust than supervision in the liberal system.
Keywords: Accountability, Good governance, Religious supervision, Social health, Spiritual health, Separation of powers
Type of Study: Original Research |
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Sociology
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