Role Analysis of the Sense of Security in Enhancement of the Citizen's Social Participation Case Study: Shiraz, Iran

Social participation represents different types of individual and group actions in order to influence the decision-making processes for public affairs.The subjective dimension of participation is the tendency to social participation creating trust and other underlying factors in people as a result; and the objective dimension of social participation appears as membership, supervision, performance and decision-making to represent an objective relationship between them. It seems that existence and consolidation of different dimensions of security plays an important role in consolidation of two subjective and objective aspects of social participation of citizens.
The current study aims to assess the role of sense of security in enhancement of social participation of citizens in Shiraz with prioritizing the effective factors. The study is fulfilled according to its descriptive-analytical and survey methodology during which, the theoretical foundations of study have been analyzed at first in order to reach the main goal. Then, a questionnaire is scrutinized in order to consider the role of security idea in participation of citizens in Shiraz, and is distributed among 256 people of statistical population. SPSS software and T-Test method are used to analyze data and consider the role of security. The findings of study show that sense of security, among other factors such as effectiveness, role-playing, incitation, appropriateness, protection, trust, information and education, responsibility, belonging and attachment, condition and invitation; prepares citizens more for social participation and motivation. In addition, this manuscript presents some guidelines, strategies and policies to improve social participation based on effective factors.