Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 PhD Student in Public Policy, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. Mohammad_jalalirad@yahoo.com
2 Professor of political science at Tehran University, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Tehran, Iran.
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran.
Abstract
The political culture of a society is a set of ideals, attitudes, and more or less fixed attitudes about power and politics, which are formed under the influence of the ideas, symbols, values, and beliefs of individuals and in the context of their history and collective life, and are related to political behaviors and interactions in The existing political system gives directions. The purpose of this research is to measure the political participation of the people in the model of Iran's political culture from the perspective of the elites. The research method in this study is a mixed method (quantitative-qualitative). The statistical population of elites includes 140 professors and political experts of political science faculties of state universities and Islamic Azad and Payam Noor universities of Tehran province, and the population statistical population consists of 704 citizens living in 352 neighborhoods of Tehran. The sampling method in this research is purposeful and completely non-probability. The data collection tool is a researcher-made questionnaire with items taken from library studies and Delphi interviews of experts. The face and content validity of the questionnaire has been confirmed and the reliability of the questionnaire has been emphasized by Cronbach's alpha. Data analysis has been done through descriptive and inferential statistics. According to the findings of this research, the model of Iran's political culture from the perspective of the elites can be presented in three dimensions: macro, medium and micro and western, Iranian, Islamic-revolutionary components, society and governance space, individual and elites and 43 separate indicators. did The results showed that the participation of citizens in the mentioned model is high in many indicators and there is a significant relationship between social bases. Also, there is a significant difference between the attitude of citizens and intellectual elites in the ranking of indicators.
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