Study of Factors Affecting the Political Culture of Citizens: Meta-Analysis of Research From 2001 to 2021

Political culture refers to the political knowledge, political awareness, knowledge, tactics, tastes or political attitudes of citizens. In Iran, the issue of politics, participation in elections, presence in various socio-political arenas and citizens' political awareness of parties and candidates show the growth of their political culture. The main purpose of this study is to study the factors affecting the political culture of citizens in the period 2001 to 2021. The research method was meta-analysis (quantitative), the statistical population was 45 documents in which 23 studies (survey, correlation coefficients, significance level and sample size) were selected by non-probability method. The results show that there is a significant relationship between political capital, mass media, social capital, economic capital, cultural factors, psychological factors and national issues with political culture. Due to the heterogeneity between the above studies, modifier variables have been used. The results show that among the ethnic groups of Turks (0.23), Fars (0.21), Turkmen (0.20) and Kurds (0.18) have an effect on political culture as mediating variables and their overall effect is equal to 0.18%. Among the statistical population, university professors with a value of 0.34 and students with a value of 0.29 and academic elites with a value of 0.26% had the most impact as a mediating variable on political culture