Are Labour party politicians anti-Semitic, and are Conservative Islamophobic? In this correspondence study we measure the responsiveness of elected local representatives in United Kingdom to requests from putative constituents minority religious groups. We send short email 10,268 government each main political parties, stereotypically Islamic, Jewish, Christian names. Response rates six seven p...

The establishment of reliable and authoritative figures on ethnic, religious, and language groups plays a prominent role in efforts to fight discrimination and foster individual human rights as well as minority group rights. However, there is no consensus among statisticians, demographers and social scientists at large concerning standards to be used in the identification of minority groups and...

The article analyzes the development of system international legal universal and regional documents regulating status ethnic minorities, role, importance acts UN, UNESCO, International Labor Organization, OSCE, Commonwealth Independent States in this regard. As a result research, it has been justified that document “On rights persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious linguistic minorit...

Increasing religious diversity caused by immigration is often perceived as a threat to national majority members' (non)religious worldviews. However, defensive reactions are not inevitable. Building on the social identity approach and motivated construction theory, we argue that worldviews satisfy motivational needs may promote support for minorities' rights. We tested this hypothesis in sample...

We explore the effects of local ethnic and religious diversity on individual donations to private charities. Using 10-year neighborhood-level panels derived from personal tax records in Canada, we find that diversity has a detrimental effect on charitable donations. A 10 percentage point increase in ethnic diversity reduces donations by 14%, and a 10 percentage point increase in religious diver...