Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective Book

This book has two main purposes. The first is to correct the common understanding that the Japanese do not volunteer and to reveal Japan's vibrant civil society. Second, the book develops a model that explains patterns of volunteer participation around the world.Read More

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    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.

  • 0521869498
  • 9780521869492
  • Mary Alice Haddad
  • 5 February 2007
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 236
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