nour allah gheisari; Kyoumars Jahangir; fatemeh ghanaee
Abstract
This study aims to investigate the relationship between resoruce mobilization and the wining of a candidate in presedetial election according to resource mobilization theories. To do this, five hypotheses were formulated. The theoretical framework was based on different theories and models in election ...
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This study aims to investigate the relationship between resoruce mobilization and the wining of a candidate in presedetial election according to resource mobilization theories. To do this, five hypotheses were formulated. The theoretical framework was based on different theories and models in election behaviors analysis. Three viewpoints were more outstanding than others including sociological pattern, political-psychological pattern and rational selection pattern. The main hypothesis was, “There is a significant relationship between mobilizing and allocating resources by candidates and their winnigs in the elections campaign”. Data were collected from library and other documents. Resources mobilization was the independent and campain wining was the dependent variables. Pearson correlation was utilized to find the relationship between the two variables. All five variables were reported to be highly correlated. To investigate the degree of the relationship between variables, regression test was used utilizing ENTER. Regression was indicative of the high correlation between variables (R=0.791). The regression index (R=0.625) showed a high variance of the dependent variable. Sixty three percent of election victory was predicted based on the regression line. In this study, the researchers attempted to present a model to explaion “how a candidate wins the election campaign?”with the aim to shed light on some aspects of explanation problems of Irans presidential and other elections.
