Developing a Grounded-base Model about Official Public Participation in the Administration of Community Affairs, Case of study: Sarshur Neighborhood in Mashhad, Iran

This study was conducted in a traditional neighborhood, Sarshur, in the center of Mashhad, Iran, in 2019–2021. The research used the method of systematic grounded theory to produce a grounded-base model through local and substantive theory of the official public participation of the residents of this neighborhood in the development of community affairs.The result shows that the process of official public participation in this neighborhood follows a substantive theory, which can be called topic-based grounded theory.