AOC A Worldwide Exploratory Inquiry into the Influence of Globalization on Cooperation

很多研究都在讨论全球化如何在总体层面上影响社会，然而，我们对这一过程如何影响个人与他们所在地区、国家和世界上的周围人的日常社会和经济互动还没有明确的认识。我们的研究目标是解决一个基本问题，即个人在全球体系中的参与是否以及如何影响在地方、国家和全球层面上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之间保持平衡。参与者将参与一系列的实验互动，旨在突出他们在合作增加整体当地福利或合作增加全球福利之间的紧张关系。这项研究是了解人们在何种程度上愿意在地方和全球层面上合作提供公共产品的第一步——人们表现出与世界不同程度的相互联系，并探索他们这样做的原因。有了这种深入的了解，我们也许能够加强全球合作，减少与不提供全球公共产品有关的金钱和人力成本。

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's 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 research is a first step toward understanding the degree to which people - who demonstrate differing levels of interconnectedness with the world - will cooperate to provide public goods at the local and global levels, and to explore why they do so. With this deepened understanding, we may be able to increase global cooperation and to reduce the monetary and human costs associated with non-provision of global public goods.