Provincial governance, citizenship and national power: designing an analytical framework

Provincial governance as a type of local governance is based on the principle of decentralization. This type of governance is more common in societies that are made up of different ethnicities with local demands. On the other hand, the rational basis of the principle of decentralization is efficiency focused on local requirements, as well as the right of people to participate and take responsibility for governance. In fact, citizen-oriented (people-based) governance pays attention to the needs of the locality (here, the province). However, the result of the way of vertical regulation and organization of political power, i.e. the creation of institutionalized relations between citizens and natural communities on the one hand and the government on the other hand, based on environmental variables, is considered the main issue in local and provincial governance. The output of good provincial governance is the efficiency and legitimacy of the political system, and one of its most important consequences is the increase of national power. This is while the main concern in many centralized systems is the issue of security, public order and political stability. Therefore, the basic question is how to explain the efficiency and desirability of local governance in the context of security concerns? This article tries to answer this question with an analytical method. It seems that good local governance can be more successful by gaining the trust of citizens and increasing the legitimacy of the political system in line with the convergence of local and national affairs. The result of this issue will be the increase of the national power of a country. On the other hand, the greater the amount of national power, the more stable the stability and order will be.