The Roles of Citizenship Rights in Urban Political Development (Case Study: Tehran Metropolitan)

Today, citizenship rights is one of the main requirements of democracy. The transition from military-authoritarian regimes towards a democratic governance has shown the necessity of paying profound to civil rights. Hence, investigation of civil rights in urban governance can demonstrate important aspects of the quality of democracy dispersion in urban areas. The present study examined four indicators of "accountability", "transparency", "meritocracy" and "legalism" in the political management of metropolitan of Tehran and has tried to analyze the rights of citizens in the municipality of Tehran as the governing body and the city government. The study is an applied and descriptive survey. The sample of citizens selected according to the number of statistically based sampling formula Cochran, a total of 513 residents of the 6th district of Tehran. The number of regions in 2015 selected on the basis of cluster sampling method. The results show that on the basis of indicators of the research, satisfaction of citizens' civil rights has fallen and indicator of "legalism" is better than the three other indices, generally.