Analyzing the Dimensions of Citizens' Social Participation in Realizing Good Governance

Today, governments cannot be established without the enthusiastic presence of the people of a land. Therefore, without their participation and companionship, it will not continue much. Thus , a democratic system is the only main underlie for the real and main participation of citizens. On the other hand, good governance refers to the prevalence of government accountability, transparency in decision-making, implementation of rule of law and regulations, early response to citizens' demands, equality and inclusiveness among stakeholder groups, effectiveness and efficiency in using resources in providing services. The good governance approach is actually a complex management method through which citizens and stakeholder groups of the country express and apply their demands. Accordingly, the main goal of this research is to study the effect of social participation of citizens on the realization of good governance. The statistical population of this research is all the students of Allameh Tabatabai University in the number of 16807 and the statistical sample size is 376 , and random sampling method was used. In terms of the objective, this research is a type of applied research, and in terms of descriptive-survey data collection, is cross-sectional. For data analyzing , the structural equation method of SPSS and PLS software was used. The research results showed that the four legal, ethical, technical and cultural dimensions of participation have a positive and significant effect on good governance.