Frank Salter (ed.)

Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruism

New Data and Evolutionary Theory
Herausgeber: Salter, Frank

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Welfare, Ethnicity, and Altruism applies the controversial theory of 'Ethnic Nepotism', first formulated by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Pierre van den Berghe, to the modern welfare state (both are authors in this volume). This theory states that ethnic groups resemble large families whose members are prone to cooperate due to 'kin altruism'. Recent empirical findings in economics and political science offer confirmatory evidence. The book presents two separate studies that compare welfare expenditures around the world, both indicating that the more ethnically mixed a population becomes, the greater is its resistance to redistributive policies. These results point to profound inconsistencies within ideologies of both left and right regarding ethnicity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780714683522
• ISBN-10: 0714683523
• Artikelnr.: 21580633

Autorenporträt

Frank Salter

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The symposium target paper in broader context Part 1: Does
Ethnic Heterogeneity Depress Public Altruism in Multi-Ethnic Societies? 1.
Urban Begging and Ethnic Nepotism in Russia: An ethnological pilot study 2.
Ethnic Diversity, Population Size and Charitable Giving at the Local Level
in the United States 3. Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Spending: Testing
the evolutionary theory of ethnicity with cross-national data 4. An
Exploratory Comparative Study of the Relationship between Ethnic
Heterogeneity and Welfare Politics 5. Reconciling the Differences between
Sanderson's and Vanhanen's Results Part 2: Welfare Broadly Defined 6.
Ethnic Heterogeneity and Economic Growth: Ethnolinguistic diversity,
government and growth7. Ethnic Diversity, Foreign Aid, Economic Growth,
Population Policy, Welfare, Inequality, Conflict and the Costs of
Globalism: A perspective on W. Masters and M. McMillan's findings Part 3:
Explanation and Prediction: Does evolutionary theory help? 8. The Limits of
Chimpanzee Charity: Strategies of meat sharing in communities of wild apes
9. Selfish Cooperation, Loyalty Structures and Proto-Ethnocentrism in
Intergroup Agonistic Behaviour 10. Canadian Welfare Policy and
Ethnopolitics: Toward an evolutionary model 11. Why Welfare States Rise and
Fall: Ethnicity, belief systems, and environmental influences on the
support for public goods Part 4: Ethical and Policy Implications 12.
Ethnicity, the Problem of Differential Altruism, and International
Multiculturalism 13. Affirmative Action and Ethnic Nepotism 14. The
Evolutionary Deficit in Mainstream Political Theory