The Pattern of Political Trust with an Emphasis on the Imam Khomeini's Viewpoints by Application of the Grounded Theory

The mutual relation between an individual and political system in a society is linked to the positive attitude of the people about the political regime and authoritative officials in that society. Study of the constructive and reductive factors of this relation i.e. political trust requires observation of some standards specified to each social ground and context which are being modeled from Imam Khomeini’s viewpoint in the present paper. It seems that his presence within the realm of Iranians’ social and political life and being aware about their rules are deemed to be important assets regarding the political trust issues. The grounded theory has been the basis of describing Imam Khomeini’s pattern in this study. Accordingly, his ideas in ‘Imam’s Sahifeh’, a rich resource, were analyzed and based on the strategy of the grounded theory in qualitative studies, three stages of open, axial and selective encodings were carried out on the data of the text. Also, Imam Khomeini’s theory about the concept of political trust was explained within the framework of a paradigmatic model.