The motivation of actors in public policy; a new look at self - interest in public choice theory

The theory of public choice has a major role the literature review of public policy. This theory, based on the three main assumptions and main concepts of "methodological individualism", "economic man and his rational choice" and "politics as a subject of exchange", emphasizes the centrality of "self-interest" in politics and government. This theory introduces the active motivation of policymakers in the process of public policy in terms of the motivation of citizens and group representatives in the field of economics and markets, namely "self-interest". This paper, in the form of qualitative and developmental articles, aims to "research the motivation of the "self-interest" of public policy actors" in the context of public choice theory and With the "deductive reasoning method", introduces "the interest that public policy makers conceive for themselves, Affected by their own values, needs, and sentiments of doing or not doing something" as the motivation of their activity. This study, despite accepting many assumptions of the public choice theory, considers the "one-dimensional view" of man and "assumption of his rational choice" as the weaknesses of this theory and relates the rationality of choice to correctness of choice and correctness of choice to the interest of one's soul (not his physical dimension).