One of the requirements for achieving sustainable rural development is to provide a ground for the participation of villagers in their own destiny, which is possible through the strengthening of social capital under desirable rural governance. The purpose of this resear More
One of the requirements for achieving sustainable rural development is to provide a ground for the participation of villagers in their own destiny, which is possible through the strengthening of social capital under desirable rural governance. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of social capital on suitable rural governance of 7 villages in Drakan county in the central part of Shiraz country. The research type is applied and is of descriptive-analytical nature. Data collection method is library and field design, descriptive and inferential data analysis method and Vikor model are also used. The statistical population of this research is 3027 rural households in Drakan county. Using the Cochran formula, 341 families in 7 villages were selected to complete the questionnaire. The reliability of the questionnaire for social capital was 0.892% and for the suitable rural governance of 0.962%, which indicated their suitable value, and the formal validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts. The research findings show that with a confidence interval 99%, social capital and suitable rural governance are in a favorable situation. The results of the multivariate regression test show that there is a strong correlation with the value of 0.870 between social capital dimensions as an independent variable and desirable rural variable as a dependent variable.
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