Author = Aryan Gholipour

Institutional explanation of hydraulic ‎ Structures in Iran‎

Volume 15, Issue 2, May 2011, Pages 133-150

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Abstract The effect of the evolutionary trend of various sciences on organization ‎theory has considered the importance of external legitimacy along with the ‎significance of internal efficiency. If management is concerned with ‎instrumental rationality, sociology inclines toward cultural rationality. In ‎Iran, this cultural background has been greatly influenced by structural and ‎behavioral interactions of domination by control of water. In this respect, ‎hydrocracy is considered as a very illuminative concept indicating the nature ‎of administrative interactions in Iran, which is manifested in the literature ‎both within the structure of traditional bureaucracy. It further in the structure ‎of fake democracy and aggravates a kind of linguistic domination.‎

Promotion of Public Trust and E-Democracy: Exploration of the Role of E-Government

Volume 12, Issue 1, March 2008, Pages 219-256

Aryan Gholipour; Ali Pirannejad

Abstract Participating of demos in decision making processes of their society have had been the scientists utopia. Communication and information technologies paved the way for participation of the people in their fate. By the way, the most important construct in this equation is public trust that determines the level and specificatian of democracy To explain the role of trust in electronic government, we took advantages of justice pentagon (five dimensional) model and examined public administrators, faculty members and students opinion about electronic government, public trust and democracy. The results support our electronic government – justice – trust and democracy conceptual model.