Revisiting the Relationship between Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution: Comment

AbstractUnderstanding the nature and value of scientific collaboration is essential for sound management and proactive research policies. One component of collaboration is the composition and diversity of contributing authors. This study explores how ethnic diversity in scientific collaboration affects scientific impact, by presenting a conceptual model to connect ethnic diversity, based on author names, with scientific impact, assuming novelty and audience diversity as mediators. The model also controls for affiliated country diversity and affiliated country size. Using path modeling, we apply the model to the Web of Science subject categories Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, Ecology and Information Science & Library. For all three subject categories, and regardless of if control variables are considered or not, we find a weak positive relationship between ethnic diversity and scientific impact. The relationship is weaker, however, when control variables are included. For all three fields, the mediated effect through audience diversity is substantially stronger than the mediated effect through novelty in the relationship, and the former effect is much stronger than the direct effect between the ethnic diversity and scientific impact. Our findings further suggest that ethnic diversity is more associated with short-term scientific impact compared to long-term scientific impact.

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Governance and Business-Society Relations in Areas of Limited Statehood: An Introduction

Business & Society ◽

10.1177/0007650320985084 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 000765032098508

Author(s):

Sameer Azizi ◽

Tanja Börzel ◽

Hans Krause Hansen

Keyword(s):

Social Inequality ◽

Ethnic Diversity ◽

Global South ◽

Special Issue ◽

Introductory Article ◽

Collective Goods ◽

International Ngos ◽

State Actors ◽

The Relationship ◽

Critical Reflections

In this introductory article we explore the relationship between statehood and governance, examining in more detail how non-state actors like MNCs, international NGOs, and indigenous authorities, often under conditions of extreme economic scarcity, ethnic diversity, social inequality and violence, take part in the making of rules and the provision of collective goods. Conceptually, we focus on the literature on Areas of Limited Statehood and discuss its usefulness in exploring how business-society relations are governed in the global South, and beyond. Building on insights from this literature, among others, the four articles included in this special issue provide rich illustrations and critical reflections on the multiple, complex and often ambiguous roles of state and non-state actors operating in contemporary Syria, Nigeria, India and Palestine, with implications for conventional understandings of CSR, stakeholders, and related conceptualizations.

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The Bridging Activity of Multiracial Congregations

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel10030204 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 204

Author(s):

Edward Polson ◽

Rachel Gillespie

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Ethnic Diversity ◽

Social Trust ◽

Ethnic Composition ◽

Religious Congregations ◽

Bridging Social Capital ◽

Service Programs ◽

Multiracial Congregations ◽

The Relationship ◽

Racial Ethnic

The growing diversity of U.S. communities has led scholars to explore how racial/ethnic diversity effects social capital, civic engagement, and social trust. Less is known about the relationship between diversity and the work of community-based organizations (CBOs). In this study, we examine how the racial/ethnic composition of one ubiquitous type of CBO, religious congregations, is related to measures of organizational bridging social capital. Analyzing data collected through a census of congregations in one Midwestern county, we explore the relationship between racial/ethnic diversity and the bridging activity of religious congregations. We find that multiracial congregations are more likely to be involved with externally focused service programs, tend to support a larger number of programs, and report more interorganizational collaborators than other congregations. Our findings suggest that multiracial congregations can provide a valuable resource for increasingly diverse communities and civil society.

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Continuity and Peculiarities in Proto-Kazakh and Ancient Indian Early Religious Beliefs

Iasaýı ýnıversıtetіnіń habarshysy ◽

10.47526/habarshy.v3i121.745 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (121) ◽

pp. 185-195

Author(s):

Zatov Zatov

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Comparative Study ◽

Ethnic Diversity ◽

Life Forms ◽

Religious Knowledge ◽

Concept Of God ◽

Common Features ◽

The World ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Universe

A comparative study of the mythological picture of the world, early forms of religion allows us to identify common features characteristic of the worldview and spiritual guidelines of mankind as a whole. These features can be traced in archaic ideas about the structure of the universe, in understanding their spiritual and bodily essence, the infinity of God and the eternity of the soul, the relationship and interdependence of life forms in the world. This allows us to assert the thesis of the unity of mankind in its spiritual origins, despite racial and ethnic diversity. In the process of a comparative analysis of mythology, early forms of religion, the concept of God, the pantheon and the function of the gods, similar moments and ethnological specifics of understanding the essence of the soul and reincarnation in totemistic beliefs, in cosmological and theogonistic concepts are revealed.The author also analyzes the role and significance of the cult of ancestors, traces the evolution of the idea of proto-monotism (the creative function of Tengri and Brahma, the intention of henotheistic faith) and its place in religious knowledge.

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Unraveling the association between socioeconomic diversity and consumer price index in a tourism country

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications ◽

10.1057/s41599-021-00822-w ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Yan Leng ◽

Nakash Ali Babwany ◽

Alex Pentland

Keyword(s):

High Resolution ◽

Ethnic Diversity ◽

Large Scale ◽

Price Index ◽

Consumer Price Index ◽

Modern Society ◽

Mobile Phone Data ◽

Diversity Measures ◽

Macroeconomic Indicators ◽

The Relationship

AbstractDiversity has tremendous value in modern society. Economic theories suggest that cultural and ethnic diversity may contribute to economic development and prosperity. To date, however, the correspondence between diversity measures and the economic indicators, such as the Consumer Price Index, has not been quantified. This is primarily due to the difficulty in obtaining data on the micro behaviors and macroeconomic indicators. In this paper, we explore the relationship between diversity measures extracted from large-scale and high-resolution mobile phone data, and the CPIs in different sectors in a tourism country. Interestingly, we show that diversity measures associate strongly with the general and sectoral CPIs, using phone records in Andorra. Based on these strong predictive relationships, we construct daily, and spatial maps to monitor CPI measures at a high resolution to complement existing CPI measures from the statistical office. The case study on Andorra used in this study contributes to two growing literature: linking diversity with economic outcomes, and macro-economic monitoring with large-scale data. Future study is required to examine the relationship between the two measures in other countries.

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Ethnic Diversity, Segregation and Ethnocentric Trust in Africa

British Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0007123417000540 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 217-239 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Amanda Lea Robinson

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Groups ◽

Group Dynamics ◽

Ethnic Diversity ◽

National Level ◽

Ethnically Diverse ◽

African Countries ◽

A Value ◽

Micro Level ◽

The Relationship ◽

Level Group

AbstractEthnic diversity is generally associated with less social capital and lower levels of trust. However, most empirical evidence for this relationship is focused on generalized trust, rather than more theoretically appropriate measures of group-based trust. This article evaluates the relationship between ethnic diversity – at the national, regional and local levels – and the degree to which coethnics are trusted more than non-coethnics, a value referred to here as the ‘coethnic trust premium’. Using public opinion data from sixteen African countries, this study finds that citizens of ethnically diverse states express, on average, more ethnocentric trust. However, within countries, regional ethnic diversity is associated with less ethnocentric trust. This same negative pattern between diversity and ethnocentric trust appears across districts and enumeration areas within Malawi. The article then shows, consistent with these patterns, that diversity is only detrimental to intergroup trust at the national level when ethnic groups are spatially segregated. These results highlight the importance of the spatial distribution of ethnic groups on intergroup relations, and question the utility of micro-level studies of interethnic interactions for understanding macro-level group dynamics.

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