Obstacles to Administrative Decentralization in Iraq: The Oversight Obstacle as a Model

Abstract

The concept of oversight was established to regulate the prevailing legal relationship between central administration authorities in the state on one hand, and decentralized administrative legal entities on the other. Due to political, economic, technical, and scientific factors, the development of governmental management methods has led most countries to adopt the decentralized system. Consequently, other public legal entities have emerged alongside the state, granted by the legislator a specific degree of financial and administrative independence to manage their own affairs, and subsequently subjected to administrative supervision and oversight—which is conditional and only exercised within the limits of legal texts.