Factors affecting Legalism in the administrative system (With emphasis on government offices in two cities of Mashhad and Tehran)

According to international statistics and domestic researches Legalism in Iran is not in a high level. Officials confess that unwillingness to comply with law is high in Iran’s civil service and recognize it as being a major inconvenience. This article is intended to assess the extent of legality in civil service and at the same time, assess the factors which affect on legalism (willingness to comply with the law) in the country’s civil service. In this way, we will first construct a theoretical model based on Durkheim, Merton, Taylor’s theories and rational choice theory. Based on this model, the research hypotheses were constructed and then by using surveying method and questionnaire, we assessed the hypothesis. The research sample was “all of Tehran and Mashhad’s state offices”. At first, by using “judgmental sampling”, we chose 49 offices as the sample. Then, by ratio sampling, we selected 1238 civil servants, according to their echelon.According to results, multiple correlation coefficient is M.R=0.603 and coefficient of determination is R2=0/364. Adjusted coefficient of determination is 0.360. These figures show that nearly 36 per cent of variance and changes in the legality are determined by the variables in the equation. The existent figures verify that the variable of “binding organizational rules” with beta 0.370 more than any other independent variables directly affects legalism. The direction of the variable is positive and direct and shows that if organizational bindings increase, the extent of legalism will augment. Besides the variable of organizational binding rules, the variables of “trust”, “precedence of material issues in preferences system” and “nepotism feeling”, respectively