Characteristics of good governance and good citizenship with emphasis on the role of different ethnicities

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD Student, Government Management, Policy Orientation, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Management, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran.

Abstract

The development of a country is not achieved solely on the basis of civil and authoritarian mechanisms, but in order to achieve sustainable development and security, a government must be accountable for its actions and there must be a dynamic relationship between citizen participation and government accountability. Among these, attention to the issue of ethnic identity is one of the factors influencing good governance and government-citizen interactions. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate and compare the effect of good citizenship dimensions on good governance among different ethnicities using structural equation modeling. This research is fundamental and applied in terms of purpose and is correlated in terms of type of implementation and based on field observations. Dimensions and indicators of good governance and good citizenship are measured by a researcher-made questionnaire and the statistical population includes all Iranian citizens at the time of the research, which is divided into six main subgroups (Persian, Baluch, Turkish, Arab, Kurdish and Lor) indicating different ethnicities. And a total of 1832 Iranian citizens participated in the sample. The results showed that a justice-oriented, responsible, ethical and entrepreneurial citizen from the dimensions of good citizenship has a significant effect on the perception of the quality of good governance and different ethnicities have a moderating effect in these relationships, so that in Lor people the impact of justice-oriented citizen dimension. Perception of the quality of cooperation is greater and in the Baloch people this effect is less than other ethnicities.

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