The impacet of good governance on social capital

The theory of good governance started in 1989 by World Bank. Good governance is defined as the process and structures that guide political and socio-economic relationships. The social capital at a society includes institutions, relationships, attitudes and values that govern interactions among people contributing to economic and social development. In this research, the impact of good governance on social capital has been examined. Therefore, five different dimensions were considered for evaluating good governance including: rule of law, voice, accountability, transparency and trust. Questionnaire was the main instrument for collecting data in this study. The questionnaire has been validated by experts in this field and its reliability was calculated with cronbach alpha. We have distributed 384 questionnaires among students of social science at Shahid Beheshti University. In order to analyze the gathered data, SPSS software was used. To test the hypothesis, we used one-sample T- test. The results show that good governance has a positive effect on social capital. Among different dimensions of good governance, rule of law has the highest influence on social capital.