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Investigation of the performance of the Municipality in the framework of good municipal rule: a case study of Babolsar City
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Ali Asghar Adineh Vand *   , Maryam Haji Zadeh , Mostafa Qadami |
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| One-sided and subject-focus look will bring about many problems for a city the only ways to meet these problems are public supervision (accountability) and cooperative action these two ways can increase the level of efficiency. This study aimed at providing a comprehensive definition and analysis of the good municipal rule.Furthermore, this study was an attempt to present a set of indexes for developing good municipal rule in Iran, and to investigate these indexes in the municipal management of Bobolsar city. When it came to the Research method and data collection tools of the study.descriptive survey method, analytic method and questionnaire were used. Hypothesizes of the study were based on the fact that three factors,cooperation, accountability and efficiency, were in an inappropriate level in Babolsar City , and there was a significant difference between the educated people and other citizens of this city in terms of cooperation. Investigating thesehypothesizes, average level of cooperation and efficiency were -0.024 and -0.025 respectively.These numbers showed that the level of cooperation and efficiency werein a low level in Babolsar City. However, educated citizens showed more interest in cooperating with the municipality: the average level of cooperation was 0.05.As far as the accountability of the municipality was concerned, the citizens believed it was in an average level:the average level of accountability was 0.094.Our analysis showed that the main hypothesis of the study and also the secondary hypothesizes of the study, except the hypothesis which considered the factor of accountability in a lower level, could be supported.To investigate the above mentioned hypothesizes , ANOVA and LSD were used.65 percent of the population of the study were men and the rest(35 percent) were womenall these participants were above the 18 years old and the average level of age was 38.8.Furthermore,an average of the participants had a degree higher than the diploma.Generally speaking, these participants were classified as follows: the educated people who lived in Babolsar, those who consulted to the Babolsar’s municipality, and businessmen of Babolsar city. These participants were selected through simple random sampling and then were investigated. |
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| Keywords: Population explosion, good municipal rule, public supervision, cooperative action, efficiency, effectiveness |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Accepted: 2013/11/20 | Published: 2013/11/20
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