The current study sought to delve into the reality of deliberate political quotas in the administration of the Iraqi state and analyze the effects that resulted from it on the level of Iraqi political decision-making mechanisms, especially after the Iraqi parliamentary elections in 2021.The study concluded that the mechanisms for making political decisions in Iraq were greatly influenced by the political and social conditions that Iraq has experienced historically. However, in most stages of Iraq’s history, these mechanisms relied on the central method, as they were concentrated among people only, and were in the hands of the king or whoever appointed him. In the royal era, or in the hands of the prime minister in the Republican era, and in both stages the decision-making machine was linked to external interventions and dictates, whether from the British Mandate authorities, or the transitional military fields that Iraq witnessed as a result of the coups, while these mechanisms began to take on a participatory diplomatic framework after 2003. Despite this, it was greatly influenced by what resulted from the adopted political quota system.
Ali Abdullah (Sat,) studied this question.