THE SOCIAL IDENTITY DYNAMICS OF GRAMSCIAN HEGEMONY CONSTRUCTION: BUILDING PUBLIC GOODS THROUGH NATION STATE CREATION, COMMODIFICATION AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF STATUS STEREOTYPES

Benedict E. DeDominicis

Review of Business and Finance Studies, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-30

Abstract: The creation of public goods is a concomitant with constructing a primary, terminal self-identity community whose authorities in the form of the government the modal citizenry grants legitimacy. Those authorities have the rhetorical and persuasive leadership capacity to create authoritative institutions and policies. The recognition of those goods as public signifies that the modal member of the public functionally views the authoritative output of the policy making process as morally acceptable. Such an observer functionally views the policy’s utilitarian distribution of resources within polity and society as representing the public interest. By being functionally perceived as serving the public interest, the authorities’ distribution of goods is functionally accepted as public goods. The policies are functionally or actively perceived as reinforcing the common welfare, the public interest. Public health is one of these public goods. The characterization of the political regime typifies the control relationship between the authorities and the public. Generating public goods is uniquely problematic for each polity due to their respective dynamic constellation of values, attitudes and norms that are systemically interrelated. Effective legitimation public performance requirements by state authority figures vary across polities. Acknowledgment of effective control maintenance over and mobilization of societal resources constitutes effective leadership.

Keywords: Corruption; Hegemony; Nationalism; Public Goods; Rule of Law; Social Identity Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 D73 E42 F5 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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