Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D. student, Department of Political Science, Baft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Baft, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Baft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Baft, Iran

Abstract

The issue of political culture development and identification of the factors and components affecting it is one of the most important issues for researchers in this field. The aim of the current research is to investigate the influence of the political behavior of the managers of the Ministry of Interior on their participatory political culture after the Islamic Revolution. The method of this research, in terms of dealing with quantitative data, and conducting research with the survey method, and collecting data with the questionnaire tool. The statistical population in this research includes the political managers of the Ministry of Interior, based on the collected information, their total number is more than 168 people, and all the required information has been collected from all of them. Therefore, the sample size in this research is equal to the total size of the statistical population of 168 people. In this research, non-random and purposeful sampling was used. In order to measure the validity or reliability of the research tool, face validity was used. The collected data were also analyzed through SPSS software. The results of the research showed that there is a significant relationship between the gender of the respondents and the level of education with participatory political culture, and that there is a significant positive and direct relationship between political behavior and participatory political culture, and political behavior with all aspects of participatory political culture, i.e. cognitive dimension, value dimension. And the perceptual dimension also has a significant positive and direct relationship.

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