التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Distributional Consequences of Philanthropic Contributions to Public Goods: Self-Serving Elite in Ottoman Istanbul. |
| المؤلفون: |
Cansunar, Asli |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Politics; Apr2022, Vol. 84 Issue 2, p889-907, 19p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ELITE (Social sciences), PUBLIC goods, WAQF, ENDOWMENTS, WEALTH, OTTOMAN Empire, EQUALITY |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
ISTANBUL (Turkey) |
| مستخلص: |
While philanthropy is seen as a critical instrument for wealth redistribution in countries with low state capacity or weak welfare institutions, there is little empirical evidence of its distributional consequences. What are the incentives of the rich to philanthropically invest in local public goods? How do these incentives shape inequalities in access to services across ethnic and social groups? I answer these questions by exploiting the fact that fountains in Ottoman Istanbul, a city with rigid religious and social cleavages, were built by the Muslim elite's private initiatives through the waqf system. Using data on water provision from 1868, I find that elites used philanthropy to benefit themselves disproportionately. Elite neighborhoods were more likely to have water access and had more fountains. Also, Muslim communities were better endowed than non-Muslim communities. I conclude that philanthropy can reproduce or even exacerbate inequalities in access to essential services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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