The Social & Political Foundations of Electoral Systems in Iran's Constitutional Era(Majlese Shuraye Melli)

The present research aims to answer the question, that is what has been the relationship between social & political contexts and development in laws & regulations of electoral systems in Iran's constitutional era ? The main hypothesis is that, the main factors in shaping to The foundations of electoral systems in national consultative parliament and its triple changes have been compounded of: ideology, balance of power and class structure of society, economic foundations, common law and tradition, kind of political regime and so on. The research findings show the above components have had different roles in the professional (the Guilds) electoral system of the first parliament (majles), electoral system of the second parliament (two degree electoral law) and in the electoral system of the third parliament until fourth twenty parliament (one degree electoral law). This research tries to study the above-mentioned relationship with explanative-causal method and historical-sociological approach. The impact and influence of historical sociological approach is that, the real right of a nation, cannot been realized without recognition of social context that create the legal relations among peoples. So, the shaping of electoral systems in Iran as other political & legal systems are reflection of Social and political facts.