Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruism : New Data

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.

Introduction: The symposium target paper in broader context
Does Ethnic Heterogeneity Depress Public Altruism in Multi-Ethnic Societies?
Urban Begging and Ethnic Nepotism in Russia: An ethnological pilot study
Ethnic Diversity, Population Size and Charitable Giving at the Local Level in the United States
Ethnic Heterogeneity and Public Spending: Testing the evolutionary theory of ethnicity with cross-national data
An Exploratory Comparative Study of the Relationship between Ethnic Heterogeneity and Welfare Politics
Reconciling the Differences between Sanderson's and Vanhanen's Results
Welfare Broadly Defined
Ethnic Heterogeneity and Economic Growth: Ethnolinguistic diversity, government and growth
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
Explanation and Prediction: Does evolutionary theory help?
The Limits of Chimpanzee Charity: Strategies of meat sharing in communities of wild apes
Selfish Cooperation, Loyalty Structures and Proto-Ethnocentrism in Intergroup Agonistic Behaviour
Canadian Welfare Policy and Ethnopolitics: Toward an evolutionary model
Why Welfare States Rise and Fall: Ethnicity, belief systems, and environmental influences on the support for public goods
Ethical and Policy Implications
Ethnicity, the Problem of Differential Altruism, and International Multiculturalism
Affirmative Action and Ethnic Nepotism
The Evolutionary Deficit in Mainstream Political Theory
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Welfare, Ethnicity and Altruism : New Data and Evolutionary Theory

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