Document Type : Political sociology of Iran
Authors
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PhD student in Political Science, Faculty of Political Science, Tehran Azad University, Center, Tehran, Iran
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, Tehran Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, Tehran Azad University, Center, Iran, Tehran
Abstract
Due to the important role of elections, especially presidential elections, in society, it is of utmost importance to identify, evaluate, and map the factors affecting presidential elections. The main goal of this study is to examine and identify the factors affecting political participation in the 13th presidential election. The present study is a descriptive study in terms of data collection. The statistical population of the study includes politicians, university professors in sociology and political science. Considering the qualified and available individuals, 100 professors, students, and political and social employees were selected as the sample size. The research questionnaire was designed as a researcher-made questionnaire. In this study, four factors: social, economic, political, and religious are the factors that constitute the influential factors in elections. The results of the Cronbach's alpha coefficient evaluation showed that all research variables have alphas above 0.7. SPSS 23 software was also used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. The findings showed that, according to the results of the Friedman test and the average of the factors studied regarding the effective factors in electoral political participation, from the respondents' perspective, the economic factor (3.57) is the most important factor in participation. After that, the social factor (with an average of 2.77) is considered one of the factors that influence political participation. From the respondents' perspective, the religious factor (with an average of 1.20) has the least effect on political participation.
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