"[W]e might expect generous welfare policy to emerge in places where the solidarity that appear is community-based, rather than class-based. Unfortunately, that will tend to occur within ethnically or nationally coherent political units. It is no wonder that experimental, generous welfare policy has tended to emerge in Nordic countries, where ethnic and communal ties are strong (but where openness to immigration has begun to tear at the social consensus)." - Ryan Avent
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