Relationship between civic engagement and level of people's participation in local government

• Main Authors: Mohammadi, Seyed Hamid, Syed Abdul Rashid, Sharifah Norazizan, Emby, Zahid
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Marsland Press 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13287/1/Relationship%20between%20civic%20engagement%20and%20level%20of%20people%27s%20participation%20in%20local%20government.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13287/; http://www.jofamericanscience.org/journals/am-sci/am0705/

This paper attempts to identify the relationship between civic engagements of local people and level of their participation in local government of Torbat-Heydarieh, Iran. The paper is based on the study carried out among 400 citizens of Torbat-Heydarieh. The analysis of data uses Pearson correlation to determine the relationship between variables involved. The findings reveal that two levels of participation (tokenism and citizen-power) have positive and significant relationship with civic engagement, while there is no significant relationship between non-participation level and civic engagement. The findings of the study imply that those respondents who engage more in civic activities would participate in high level of participation in local government.