تقييم أفراد المجتمع المحلي لأداء أعضاء المجالس البلدية المنتخبين في بلديات محافظة جنين في الدورة الانتخابية التي جرت عام (2005)‎ 7

Abstract EN

The study is aimed at identifying the evaluating degree of community members to the performance of elected municipal members in Jenin governorate in the election cycle that took place in (2005) according to the variables: sex qualification age group and profession.

To achieve the objectives of the study a descriptive approach was used in which a designed questionnaire was adopted.

It consists of (54) statements distributed amongst sample of local citizen’s residents of municipalities over the age of (18) years and they have the right to campaign as candidates and vote, the sample size (1212) citizen approximately (1%) of the represented population.

The study showed that the total degree of evaluation from the community members to the elected municipal members performance was negative, it was indifferent in regarding the areas of: the environment public health and infrastructure, while in economic, Political awareness and social was negative, the study also showed that the females evaluated municipal council members performance was better than males evaluation, it also states the degree of evaluation for younger ages was better than the evaluation of mature ages, finally it showed that for citizen’s with higher academic qualifications had a stronger degree evaluation, and those who were self-employed are less satisfied than the other demographics.

The study recommended that the municipal councils must review the causes of low performance level and adjust their performance, in order to develop it.

In this way it meets the real needs of their citizens and will address more issue than currently it does.