The effect of administrative culture on the provision of public Interest in Iran's administrative system with the mediating role of Regulatory Quality

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Public Administration,, Department of Public Administration, Institute for Management and Planning Studies, Tehran.

2 Ph.D., Public Administration, Organization Behavior, Institute for Management and Planning Studies, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Purpose: Provision of public interests indicates the extent to which the institutions of a society provide and realize the goals and interests of its members. Public interest provision is the elixir of development and administrative system – one of three key institutions in a country’s development. Hence, this paper aims to discuss the impact of administrative culture and regulatory quality on public interest provision
Methodology: This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-cross sectional survey in terms of data collection method. Data were gathered through a questionnaires distributed among 166 individuals acting as informants of a statistical population of executive and middle managers in Iranian administrative system.
Research Findings: Administrative culture and the quality of laws and regulations directly affect the provision of public interests in the administrative system. In addition, administrative culture indirectly affects the provision of public interests Limitations & Consequences: The limitation of the valid background of measuring the provision of public interests and the time-consuming nature of attracting the participation of top, Practical Consequences: Explaining the impact of administrative culture and the quality of laws and regulations on providing public interests in the country's administrative system and strengthening the development policy of the country's administrative system.
Innovation or value of the Article: Explaining the provision of public interests in the administrative system by using the theories of modern institutionalism, designing the criteria for providing public interests and highlighting the role of administrative culture in the development 

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