Comparative analysis of the concept of public good and its construction in political approaches

Public good, as one of the basic concepts in political thought, has not been explored independently so far. While this concept, along with concepts such as "public interests, public goods, public policies, public goods and common interests and common good", has formed the basis of most of the approaches and debates of various schools.In the common discourse of political science, "public good" refers to those material, cultural or institutional facilities in which the members of a society share interests. "Public good" is an important concept in political philosophy and political thought; Because it plays an important role in philosophical thinking about the public and private aspects of social life. This article seeks to analytically and comparatively study the course of the concept of public good in comparison with other concepts, both in the form of conceptual definition and in the form of approaches of political thoughts, and to pay attention to the literature of this concept separately. What is the public good? How is it different from other concepts and what is its place in political thought? In this article, which is a developmental type and obtained in a descriptive-analytical way and using reliable library sources, the differences and aspects of this concept have been shown and this concept has been analyzed in different perspectives for the first time.