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GEOGRAPHICAL DIFFERENCES IN BLOOD DONATION AND PHILANTHROPY IN THE NETHERLANDS – WHAT ROLE FOR SOCIAL CAPITAL?
Author(s) -
BEKKERS RENÉ,
VELDHUIZEN INGRID
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2008.00483.x
Subject(s) - prosocial behavior , donation , social capital , blood donor , demographic economics , variation (astronomy) , capital (architecture) , turnover , socioeconomics , social psychology , political science , economic growth , sociology , psychology , economics , geography , social science , medicine , management , immunology , physics , archaeology , astrophysics
The key question addressed in this paper is whether geographical differences in blood donation and philanthropy reflect differences in social capital. We do find considerable spatial variation in blood donation and philanthropy between municipalities in the Netherlands. But we do not find that blood donation and philanthropy have strong or even moderately positive relations with each other or with indicators of prosocial norms and engagement in voluntary associations. However, voter turnout is strongly related to both blood donation and philanthropy. We conclude that the spatial variation in blood donation and philanthropy is not due to differences in social capital.