How did arthur brooks decide that republicans give more to charity than democrats?

Answer 1

Arthur Brooks is a social scientist and the President of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. He has written books on charitable giving in America and his conclusions are controversial.

Brooks says that, even accounting for religious giving, conservatives give more than liberals to charity.

Brooks believes that he has uncovered a value problem in American society. His writings work his findings into supportive positions in this regard.

One of the things he says is that government should not move to replace charitable giving. That is; a government program to feed the hungry should not replace charitable soup-kitchens as this causes giving to be reduced.

But if giving is insufficient to provide for the hungry should people starve just so people will continue to give?

Brooks looked at broad categories of giving and then made his own interpretations. Giving is an important cultural norm. But it is probably true that the only people who give till it hurts are taxpayers.

Answer 2

This is a difficult thing to properly measure. The easily accessible (and dubious) numbers show that Republicans, being more traditionally religious, give more money to churches. It is often difficult to know how much of those monies reach the intended recipients. This is often posited as an argument that Republicans/conservatives are more charitable than Democrats/liberals.

I have heard well argued that Democrats prefer broader (i.e. government) social programs over religious programs, hence the inclination of Democrats to push for those social programs through government...which many Republicans/conservatives decry.

It would be inappropriate to characterize either party/demographic as being more compassionate/caring than the other.

Answer 3

Republicans give more than twice what Democrats give in charitable contributions.

In 2008 Arthur C. Brooks wrote a book that included information on this very question and found that even though on average Democrat households have higher incomes, the Republican or Conservative households donate more of their income. Republicans also donate more blood as well.

Answer 4

It honestly depends on what time period you're talking about, and what you consider philanthropy. Also, if you're talking about people who are supportive of these political parties, or the political parties themselves, or Presidents that belong to each party. Its also rather difficult to say because the media prefers to report on negatives rather than positives (and because politicians, basically at their base are pretty selfish and greedy and not tending towards philanthropy)

Answer 5

They are both political parties. There is no specific range of wealth because they both are under the same country.