Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Journal of Social Sciences

The Effect of Economic and Social Welfare on the Degree of the Participation of Citizens in Urban Affairs (Case: City of Isfahan)

Document Type : Research

Authors

Rasool Rabbani
Dharma Arunachalm
Mohammad Abbaszadeh
Vahid Ghasemi
https://doi.org/10.22067/jss.v0i0.8726
Abstract
Public participation in urban decision-making process is one of the main elements of a democratic system, which can help establish balance and harmony between different sections of the society. This paper mainly aims to study the effect of economic and social welfare on the degree of citizen participation in urban affairs. Our main hypothesis emphasizes that there is a strong positive correlation here. The research method used in the study was survey method. To assess the dependent and independent variables, we selected 700 respondents through multistage sampling method from among the family heads of 7 municipal districts in the city of Isfahan as the final samples to answer the questionnaires (2007). Based on the findings, obtained through SPSS16 and Lisrel software, most of the Isfahani Citizens had high participation in urban affairs, and there is a significant linear correlation between economic and social welfare on the one hand and citizen participation in urban affairs on the other. The value of revised regression R² indicates that %67 of the variance in the dependent variable is explained by the variables applied in the regression model. Overall, in comparison to other variables, the variable “the appropriateness of the residential district,” was of greater effect on the dependent variable.


Keywords

participation
economic welfare
social welfare
institutional confidence
relative deprivation feeling
social contentment
health contentment
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  • Receive Date 15 June 2011
  • First Publish Date 15 June 2011
  • Publish Date 20 February 2008

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