On the effects of ‘social field’ on the voters’ attitudes towards the policymaking of the electoral institutions in Rasht

This paper aims to increase capitals in the social fields for the institutions having a pivotal role in policy making processes. In order to narrow down the topic, the electoral institution of the Islamic Parliament as the most important legislative institution was selected. The method of this research was a survey and a research- made questionnaire was used to collect the data. All the voters who were eligible to vote constituted the population out of which 400 individuals were selected as the sample of the study based on a multistage cluster sampling. One of the paramount findings of this study was that the ‘attitudes towards social field’ had a direct and positive impact on the attitudes towards the policymaking of the electoral institution of the Islamic Parliament. Meanwhile, the four dimensions of the social field (including economic capita, social capita, cultural capita, and symbolic capita) had direct and positive impacts on the voters’ attitudes towards the policymaking of the Islamic Parliament. It is worth noting that there was no correlation between education and the voters’ attitudes whereas there was a negative correlation between age and voters’ attitudes towards the policy making of the electoral institutions. Finally, males and females were different with respect to attitudes towards the policy making in the sense that the females’ attitudes were more positive.