The study of Trust in Political Parties Case of Tarbiat Modares University Students

The subject of this article is the sociological analysis of trust in Political Parties. The problem relates to the lack of institutionalization of political parties in Iran. With the inspiration of Sztompka and Offe theories, the theoretical structure of this research is formulated as follows: efficiency under condition of normative coherence and transparency of the organization conduces to trust in political parties. Using the observational propositions, this argument has been investigated by critical judgments. For the empirical judgment about the theoretical propositions of hypotheses, the regression method has been used in this study. Statistical population for this research is doctorate (Ph.D.) students of Tarbiat Modares University studying in the central campus. Results of Experimental tests indicate that the relation between trust to the political parties and combination of independent variables is high (= 0.78), and the proportion of variance shared with dependent variable, which is explained by participation of independent variables is 60 percent (= 0.609). The weight of efficiency in explanation of the trust in political parties is more than other independent variables in analysis.