Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant Professor of Regional Studies, Department of Law and Political Science, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.
Abstract
Political development is defined as growth, awareness, political culture, and citizens' inclination towards democracy, democratic values, and political participation based on acquired and rational patterns. With the increase in social, cultural, and economic capital, the tendency towards political development values also increases. Based on a meta-analysis of 56 scientific studies from 2005 to 2024, the relationship between three types of social, cultural, and economic capital and political development in Iran was examined. The research method was quantitative and meta-analytic (with CMA2 software), and Cohen and Fisher effect size tests were used to analyze the data. The findings showed that social capital, with an effect coefficient of 0.563, has the strongest positive and significant relationship with political development. Among its components, social trust (0.621) showed the greatest impact. Cultural capital with an impact coefficient of 0.472 had a positive and significant relationship, in which media literacy (0.410) and religious affiliation (0.335) played a prominent role in the process of political development in Iran. In contrast, economic capital with an impact coefficient of 0.280 showed the weakest, but still the most significant relationship with political development, and the economic participation component (0.316) had the largest contribution in this regard.
Keywords
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- Social capital"
- cultural capital"
- economic capital"
- political development"
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- equality and social justice"
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