Corona's epidemic crisis and its impact on social capital and political trust in Iran

Corona's omnipotence put governments in a critical position while they did not expect such a situation at all. This epidemic has not only medical posed a real threat, but has also targeted the effectiveness of government policies. In the meantime, the adoption of appropriate policies to deal with this crisis has, above all, returned to a fundamental category: social capital. Social capital and the political trust that accompanies it, most of all, help governments, and its scarcity is fundamentally detrimental to their policy of curbing the all-encompassing crisis. In Iran, too, the government found itself in such an unfavorable and critical situation. Although many governments were in a similar situation, reducing social capital in Iran, which had emerged from previous and recent crises, made it even more difficult. Did. In this article, while examining the category of social capital and political trust, the example of the Iranian government will be mentioned and the question will be asked: What are the consequences of the reduction of the government's social capital in Iran in the issue of Corona epidemic? And according to studies, this decline has been largely due to previous crises, political distrust and inefficiency of the government in its macro-policies.