1. Identifying the Factors which Influencing the Political Capital1
Naghmeh Ebadi
Ph.D student, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran
Aryan Gholipour
Associated Professor, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran
Ali Pirannejad
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran
Abstract:
Nowadays democracy is essential for governance and citizens want to play increasing roles in policy
making. But maximum political participation is not the only factor for the realization of real democracy
and other preconditions such as political trust, political knowledge, acceptance of political democratic
norms and political networks need. All of these concepts present political capital, which increases the
ability of citizens for influencing political systems. Therefore, improving the quality of democracy
requires improving political capital and the first step is recognizing influencing factors on this concept.
For this purpose, 12 of experts in this field were interviewed and was employed thematic analysis for
analyzing data. The results indicate that influencing factors on political knowledge and actions can group
in two dimensions: citizens and government. It means for improving political capital governments and
citizens, both of them, must do actions.
Keywords: Democracy, Political capital, Political Knowledge, Political Participation, Political democratic
norms, political networks.
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Ebadi, N. Gholipour, A. Pirannejad, A. (2014). E-Government, Institutional Dynamic and Coming Trust-building
Crisis. Quarterly Journal of Management and Development Process, 27(2), 29-52.