Preparation and Validation of Native Indices of Rural Good Governance Mostafa Taleshi -Associate Prof. Department of Geography, Faculty of social science and Economic PNU University. Alireza Darban Astane -Assistant Prof. of Geography and Rural Planning, Tehran University. Seyed Aref Mousavi 1 -PhD Student of Geography and Rural Planning, PNU University. Abstract Rural good governance is a comparative approach, which can be realized through behavior, regularity, and institutionalization of accountability, people’s participation, transparency, law- fulness, responsibilitity, consensus-orientedness, etc. Accordingly, rural good governance can be defned as the mutual reaction of offcials and planners in macro and micro levels for local societies with people who are infuenced by development programs. Certainly the importance and necessity of analyzing rural governance is impossible withoutthe identifcation, prepara- tion, and validation of native and infuential indices. Thus, the present paper intends to pre- pare and validate the indices of rural good governance so that both planners and researchers can use these components, indices, and items, which are confrmed by experts of rural issues, in their studies of rural development management or their analysis of rural projects. In terms of its objective and nature, the present study is practical, while in terms of its methodology it is descriptive - survey-based. Furthermore, the statistical society here involves 35 experts in order to study nine main indices and 48 items. In order to validate and achieve experts’ con- sensus about the prioritization of the indices, the methods of direct rating, power ranking, ranking reversibility, as well as mean and standard deviation have been used. What is more, in order to determine the quality of the items, two methods of Content Validity Ratio (CVR) and Content Validity Index (CVI) have been employed. Results from this research showed that based on standard mean of the three methods above for index prioritization, the nine studied indices were as the following, according to the ex- perts: participation (0.42), concensus-orientedness (0.28), equity-orientedness (0.21), respon- sibility (0.19), transparency (0.33), accountability (0.25), lawfulness (0.20), legitimacy (0.24), and effectiveness and effciency (0.20). Moreover, after analyzing the items, out of the sum of 48 items, 42 were identifed as appropriate items for rural good governance, from which 8 items belonged to participation, 4 to consensus-orientedness, 4 to equity-orientedness, 4 to responsibility, 7 to transparency, 3 to accountability, 6 to lawfulness, 4 to legitimacy, and 8 to effectiveness. Key words: validation, Indices, planning, Governance, Rural governance. 1. Corresponding Author, Tel: 09124901568, Email Address: Arefmusavi@gmail.com 411 - 429 Received 21 May 2016; Accepted 17 July 2016 ت شهری فصلنامه مدیری (ضمیمه لتین) Urban management No.46 Spring 2017