Effective Factors in Improving Political Participation from the Viewpoint of Villagers (Case Study: Ardabil City)

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors effective on the improvement of political participation from the Viewpoint of local people of Ardabil County. First, Effective Factors in Improving Political Participation in the study area were identified from the view point of local elites using semi-structured interviews. To achieve this goal, 35 residents of the studied region were interviewed individually with college education and at least a bachelor's degree. In the second step of study, in order to understand and analyze rural communities' view point and their theoretical agreement degree with the results of the first step, 38 identified causes were the questionnaire design basis by Likert method. It can be said that studied population in this study consists of all villagers living in rural areas of Ardabil County in 2016 (N= 85053), among which 383 persons were selected as statistical sample using Cochran formula. In order to analyze the data, factor analysis model was used and the results of this model showed the most important factor improvement of political participation from the perspective of local people in studied region includes five components (improvement of political living and social learning, improvement of social living and latticework, economical  flowering and confidence building and environmental living and motivation amplify) that explained variance and the cumulative variance by the five factors 58.54. And finally, practical suggestions have been presented according to the results of the study.