Building an International Research Network: Graduate Student Involvement in a Worldwide Study of the Influence of Globalization on Cooperation

许多研究都在讨论全球化如何在总体层面上影响社会，但我们并不清楚这一进程如何影响个人在日常社会和经济交往中与他们周围的人在他们的地方，他们的国家和世界。我们的研究目标是解决一个基本问题，即个人参与全球体系是否以及如何影响在地方、国家和全球层面合作提供公共产品的倾向。我们的研究方法是实验性的。我们在阿根廷、英国、伊朗、俄罗斯、南非和美国这六个国家的公民之间复制了同样的互动。来自每个国家的参与者将代表不同程度的参与全球系统，研究样本将在年龄，性别和社会经济地位类别中保持平衡。参与者将参与一系列实验性互动，旨在突出他们之间的合作，以增加整体当地福利，或合作，以增加全球福利的紧张关系。这个新的奖项补充了我们以前的实验奖，以提高研究生在这个项目中的参与。这项工作涉及美国研究生和来自其他国家的研究生，包括对研究程序和协议的初步测试。

Much research exists discussing how globalization influences societies at the aggregate level, however we have no clear understanding of how this process influences individuals in their everyday social and economic interactions with those around them in their locality, their country, and the world. Our research goal is to address the fundamental question of whether and how an individual' participation in the global system influences the propensity to cooperate to provide public goods at the local, national, and global levels.Our research methodology is experimental. We replicate the same interactions among and between citizens in six countries: Argentina, Great Britain, Iran, Russia, South Africa and the United States. Participants from each country will represent varying degrees of participation in the global system and the research sample will be balanced across the categories of age, gender, and social-economic status. Participants will engage in a series of experimental interactions intended to make salient for them the tension between cooperating to increase overall local welfare, or cooperating to increase global welfare. This new award supplements our earlier experimental award to enhance the participation of graduate students in this project. The work involves both American graduate students and those from the other countries included in the initial testing of the research procedures and protocols.