Race, Paternalism, and Foreign Aid: Evidence from U.S. Public Opinion

Baker, Andy

doi:10.1017/s0003055414000549

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“…Originally, paternalism has been defined as a system-level variable: "the principle or system of governing or controlling a country, group of employees, etc. Thus, paternalism is characterized by a duality of control and care (Aycan, 2006;Baker, 2015;Schroeder, Waytz, & Epley, 2017). In line with this definition, paternalism has been mainly studied in the context of leadership.…”

Section: Paternalistic Beliefs As Antagonists Of Social Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…There, paternalism can be observed when leaders provide care and protection, whereas the followers are expected to be loyal and deferential (Aycan, 2006). Thus, paternalism is characterized by a duality of control and care (Aycan, 2006;Baker, 2015;Schroeder, Waytz, & Epley, 2017). Prior work illustrated that paternalism (here, benevolent sexism) prevents support for social change (e.g., Becker & Wright, 2011).…”

Section: Paternalistic Beliefs As Antagonists Of Social Changementioning

confidence: 99%

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Antecedents and consequences of autonomy‐ and dependency‐oriented help toward refugees

Becker

Ksenofontov

Siem

et al. 2018

Euro J Social Psych

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We tested antecedents (paternalistic beliefs; Study 1) and consequences (social change potential; Study 2) of autonomy‐ and dependency‐oriented help and developed scales assessing paternalistic beliefs and both forms of help. In Study 1 (N = 143 Germans), we focused on paternalistic beliefs as an antagonist to social change and a key distinguishing variable between engagement in both forms of help. As expected, paternalistic beliefs were positively related to dependency‐oriented help, mediated by concern for a positive national moral image, but negatively related to autonomy‐oriented help, mediated by perceived competence of refugees. In Study 2, both refugees (N = 80) and Germans (N = 94) perceived autonomy‐oriented help to have more potential for social change than dependency‐oriented help.

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Section: Paternalistic Beliefs As Antagonists Of Social Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Paternalistic Beliefs As Antagonists Of Social Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Antecedents and consequences of autonomy‐ and dependency‐oriented help toward refugees

Becker

Ksenofontov

Siem

et al. 2018

Euro J Social Psych

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“…Our theoretical account also integrates treatment of paternalistic forms of aid that have previously been studied separately across different literaturessuch as affirmative action (Pratkanis & Turner, 1999), redistribution (Baker, 2015), nudges (Sunstein, 2016), and dependencyoriented help (Nadler, 2002)-that all share the same feature of limiting individual freedoms.…”

Section: Paternalistic Versus Agentic Aid: a Framework For How Peoplementioning

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Endorsing help for others that you oppose for yourself: Mind perception alters the perceived effectiveness of paternalism.

Schroeder

Waytz

Epley

2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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How people choose to help each other can be just as important as how much people help. Help can come through relatively paternalistic or agentic aid. Paternalistic aid, such as banning certain foods to encourage weight loss or donating food to alleviate poverty, restricts recipients' choices compared with agentic aid, such as providing calorie counts or donating cash. Nine experiments demonstrate that how people choose to help depends partly on their beliefs about the recipient's mental capacities. People perceive paternalistic aid to be more effective for those who seem less mentally capable (Experiments 1 and 2), and people therefore give more paternalistically when others are described as relatively incompetent (Experiment 3). Because people tend to believe that they are more mentally capable than are others, people also believe that paternalistic aid will be more effective for others than for oneself, effectively treating other adults more like children (Experiments 4a-5b). Experiencing a personal mental shortcoming-overeating on Thanksgiving-therefore increased the perceived effectiveness of paternalism for oneself, such that participants thought paternalistic antiobesity policies would be more effective when surveyed the day after Thanksgiving than the day before (Experiment 6). A final experiment demonstrates that the link between perceived effectiveness of aid and mental capacity is bidirectional: Those receiving paternalistic aid were perceived as less mentally capable than those receiving relatively agentic aid (Experiment 7). Beliefs about how best to help someone in need are affected by subtle inferences about the mind of the person in need.

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“…In addition to these pre-treatment attitudinal variables, our models include basic demographics-the respondents' age, gender, and religious status-as controls in the multivariate analyses below. 2 …”

Section: Data Survey and Experimental Designmentioning

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We Spend How Much? Misperceptions, Innumeracy, and Support for the Foreign Aid in the United States and Great Britain

Scotto¹,

Reifler²,

Hudson³

et al. 2017

J Exp Polit Sci

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Majorities of citizens in high-income countries often oppose foreign aid spending. One popular explanation is that the public overestimates the percentage and amount of taxpayer funds that goes towards overseas aid. Can the framing of aid overcome this innumeracy? We report the results of an experiment examining differences in support for aid spending as a function of the information American and British respondents receive about foreign aid spending. In both nations, providing respondents with information about foreign aid spending as a percentage of the national budget significantly reduces support for cuts. The findings suggest that support for aid can be increased, but significant opposition to aid spending remains.2

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Race, Paternalism, and Foreign Aid: Evidence from U.S. Public Opinion

Cited by 75 publications

References 57 publications

Antecedents and consequences of autonomy‐ and dependency‐oriented help toward refugees

Antecedents and consequences of autonomy‐ and dependency‐oriented help toward refugees

Endorsing help for others that you oppose for yourself: Mind perception alters the perceived effectiveness of paternalism.

We Spend How Much? Misperceptions, Innumeracy, and Support for the Foreign Aid in the United States and Great Britain

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