An Introduction to the Conceptual Knowledge of Participatory Governance Jurisprudence

Legitimacy and popularity are the two main elements of government in Shia jurisprudence. The model at the disposal of government officials should also have two elements of people and sharia. Therefore, the governance system in Shia jurisprudence has been based on the principles and rulings of Sharia. Regulating governance jurisprudence with the approach of people's participation in order to transform it into an independent jurisprudential style requires several steps: 1. Constructing concepts, principles and establishing foundations 2. Presenting the system of problems 3. Forming and explaining rulings in facing each of the system of problems. This article has investigated and processed the jurisprudence of governance with a popular approach by using innovative styles of conceptualization and descriptive-analytical method. The findings obtained in this research indicate that the participatory governance jurisprudence derives its concepts from government jurisprudence, political jurisprudence and social system jurisprudence in each of the innovative methods of conceptualization, and the approach of public participation, while existing in those two jurisprudences, relates with social system jurisprudence in knowledge. Based on this, by presenting a conceptual framework for each of the existing concepts in participatory governance jurisprudence and by inducing each of the concepts presented in the knowledge styles, it has tried to process the concept of participatory governance jurisprudence. Finally, this article has established a concept for the jurisprudence of governance with the approach of popular participation by constructing the concept and analyzing the principles of confirmation and imagination. The findings of this article are a sort of introduction or conclusion to the concept of participatory governance jurisprudence in a systematic way.