| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 218 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Performing their civic duty : a theory of volunteer participation -- Patterns of participation : volunteering around the world -- Volunteering in Japan : not where you would expect -- Practices that count : legitimizing, organizing, and funding volunteers -- Engaged communities : the community voluntarism model -- Cross-national volunteer participation : testing the community voluntarism model -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Politics and Volunteering begins by painting a portrait of volunteering in Japan, and demonstrates that our current understandings of civil society have been based implicitly on a U.S. model that does not adequately consider participation patterns found in other parts of the world. The book develops a theory of civic participation that, incorporates citizen attitudes about governmental and individual responsibility, with societal and governmental practices that support (or hinder) volunteer participation. This theory is tested using cross-national and sub-national statistical analysis, and it is refined through detailed case studies of volunteering in three Japanese cities. The findings are then used to build the Community Volunteerism Model, which explains and predicts both the types and rates of volunteering in communities around the world. The model is tested using four cross-national case studies (Finland, Japan, Turkey and the United States) and three sub-national case studies in Japan. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Voluntarism -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Voluntarism. |
| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Subject |
Voluntarism -- Japan.
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Japan. |
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Social participation -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Social participation. |
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Social participation -- Japan.
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Community organization -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Community organization. |
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Community organization -- Japan.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haddad, Mary Alice, 1973- Politics and volunteering in Japan. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521869492 (DLC) 2006019640 |
| ISBN |
9780511296437 (electronic book) |
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0511296436 (electronic book) |
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0511295669 (electronic book) |
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9780511295669 (electronic book) |
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0521869498 (hardback) |
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9780521869492 (hardback) |
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9786610959587 |
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6610959587 |
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