Ali Mohammadzadeh; ALi Asghar Pourezzat; Ali Pirannejad; Majid ,Mokhtarianpour; Mahdi Pendar
Abstract
Everything that involves the participation of citizens is formed in a context that is surrounded by common categories, and regardless of them, the participation of citizens is difficult to happen. The purpose of this study is to design a comprehensive model of citizen participation in Tehran. The research ...
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Everything that involves the participation of citizens is formed in a context that is surrounded by common categories, and regardless of them, the participation of citizens is difficult to happen. The purpose of this study is to design a comprehensive model of citizen participation in Tehran. The research method is qualitative and the current situation is modeled based on the Glaserian approach from the strategy of grounded theory. Along this line, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 citizens, city managers, and experts in the field of citizen participation who were selected in the form of snowballs. The Glaser side is introduced and modeled. "Lack of citizen-centered approach in the municipality" was introduced as a central phenomenon and 12 categories were introduced as sub-categories. The result is that to increase citizen participation, Tehran Municipality must reform the attitude of its human resources, especially managers and policymakers, and show this change in attitude in practice and the municipality to become a participation-oriented organization, and help to change this attitude citizens to prepare the ground for their presence in the field of urban participation and strengthen the central participation of the municipality and urban management, with the suggestions presented at the end of the article, to fill the gaps.
Hadi Khan Mohammadi; Reza Vaezi; Mostafa Delshad Tehrani
Volume 2, Issue 3 , June 2014, , Pages 25-48
Abstract
The subject of citizen's Participation in government and reign affairs or the interactions between people and government is one of the important issues that should be paid attentionby scholars and statesmen. This is while the subject got an important place in recent quasi paradigm of public management ...
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The subject of citizen's Participation in government and reign affairs or the interactions between people and government is one of the important issues that should be paid attentionby scholars and statesmen. This is while the subject got an important place in recent quasi paradigm of public management i.e. new public service so that different theories and models have been stated in this area since the 50's. In a logical and rational approach, each country's citizen participation model take different shape according to the culture and environment of the country; Although experiences of other countries can also be used in this field.Accordingly, given the importance of people's participation in government and reign, Followingresearchaimsto identifycitizen participation's model in viewpoint of NahjolBalaghe's teachings regarding practical and theoretical method of Imam Ali (greeting to him) totakea step in theproductionof Islamic model.Therefore, themain research questionis thatwhat the model of citizen participation inpublic managementlooks like based on theteachings of theNahjolBalagheh? Tocarry out the research,contentanalysis method by Maxqdaqualitative analysis softwarehas been used. The results showthatcitizenparticipationmodel is formedbased onbasic and fundamentalvalues ofthe Islamic government andhave an interactivemodel according to the rule of both parties' reconciliation in order to achieve mutual right and duty's performance with ultimate good cooperation and interaction. According to this model, citizen-government interactive process and other partly models are created.
