A Study on the Relationship between the vindication of civil rights and Kind of political participation, Case Study: Isfahan city

Followed by the growth of urbanization, new concepts such as citizenship and civil rights have entered the political discourse of countries. Putting rights and obligations on society and state, such concepts distinguish the pre-modern human as a responsible person from the postmodern human as an entitled individual. In this regard, the vindication of civil rights can influence the political participation quantitatively and qualitatively. Therefore, the main aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between the vindication of civil rights and political participation.
Based on a questionnaire, the research method was descriptive-survey. The research data were collected from different districts of Isfahan. SPSS was used to analyze the data, and 385 individuals filled out the questionnaires.
According to the research findings, there was no significant relationship between civil rights and limited political participation. However, there was a significant relationship between civil rights and consequential political participation. Furthermore, the vindication of social rights did not have a significant relationship with active political participation, although the vindication of civil and political rights had a significant relationship with active political relationship. Given the religious and value trend of political system in Iranian society and the role of religious institution after the Islamic Revolution in particular, it can be generally stated that the consequential political participation was observed in some parts of society on the one hand. On the other hand, the active political participation of some individuals was observed in society with respect to the growth of political consciousness.