Welfare, ethnicity, and altruism : new findings and evolutionary theory /

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Imprint:London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 2004.
Description:xx, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cass series--nationalism and ethnicity, 1462-9755
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5253445
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Other authors / contributors:Salter, Frank K.
ISBN:0714654272 (cloth)
0714683523 (pbk.)
Notes:Presents findings based on the symposium "Welfare, Ethnicity, and Altruism: Bringing in Evolutionary Theory," hosted by the Werner Reimers Foundation in Bad Homburg, Germany, 10-13 February 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The symposium target paper in broader context Frank Salter
  • 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 growth
  • 7. Ethnic Diversity, Foreign Aid, Economic Growth, Population Policy, Welfare, Inequality, Conflict and the Costs of Globalism: A perspective on
  • Part 3. Explanation and Prediction: Does evolutionary theory help?
  • 8. The Limits of Chimpanzee Charity: Strategies of meat sharing in communities of wild apes Linda Marchant
  • 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
  • 14. The Evolutionary Deficit in Mainstream Political Theory