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Investigation of the social factors influencing on the participation of citizens in managing urban affairs in Salmas city

Karam Safari, Kermatollah Ziyari

Abstract


The overall objective of this paper is determining the social factors of effective citizen participation in management among Salmas citizens. The secondary objective of this study is to examine the impact of baseline characteristics, the personality, family characteristics, and status of regional institutional status of citizen participation in urban management. The research method used was descriptive - survey. 85,000 people of Salmas citizens were regarded as a target population. Data collection tool was a questionnaire based on a Likert scale. The results indicated that the questionnaire has high validity as well reliability, Cronbach's alpha was used. Since the Alpha is 0.83, the questionnaire has good reliability. For descriptive statistics of central tendency and dispersion index for T-test was used to test the hypotheses. T-test results showed that social factors can impact on citizen participation in the management of municipal affairs Salmas city.


Keywords


Social Factors, Urban Management, Citizen Participation, Citizen

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