The Status and Functions of the President in Different Presidential Systems

Rostami, Vali; Ranjbar, Ahmad

The Status and Functions of the President in Different Presidential Systems

Document Type : Scientific Paper

Authors

Vali Rostami

Ahmad Ranjbar

PhD student in Public Law, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran

Abstract

In any legal study on political institutions, what has priority is to examine the role and functions of the official structures as legal phenomena in the context of social forces in political society so that, through studying the political regime as described in the constitution in the light of external variables, the political regime as actually exists could be explored. Thus before embarking on any legal study on the status and functions of the presidency, a distinction must be recognized between institutional factors and non-institutional ones, individual elements and social ones that play a role in the scientific study. These variables help us illustrate existing data and findings on status and the functions the president has, officially or actually, in different political regimes (including the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran). Amongst these, factors such as how to elect the president, the official status of president, presidential powers as well as duties and immunities, in turn, may contribute to understanding the office of the presidency in different presidential regimes.

Keywords

President

Presidential Regimes

Semi Presidential

Semi Parliamentary

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