Research Catalog

Title

Politics and volunteering in Japan : a global perspective / Mary Alice Haddad.

Author

Haddad, Mary Alice, 1973-

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xviii, 218 pages; 24 cm

Summary

'Politics and Volunteering' paints a portrait of volunteering in Japan, and demonstrates that our current understandings of civil society have been based implicitly on a US model that does not adequately consider participation patterns found in other parts of the world.

Subject

• Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan
• Voluntarism > Cross-cultural studies
• Voluntarism > Japan
• Social participation > Cross-cultural studies
• Social participation > Japan
• Community organization > Cross-cultural studies
• Community organization > Japan
• Participation sociale > Études transculturelles
• Participation sociale > Japon
• Organisation communautaire > Études transculturelles
• Organisation communautaire > Japon
• 89.00 political science: general
• Community organization
• Social participation
• Voluntarism
• Voluntarismus
• Gemeinwesenarbeit
• Kulturvergleich
• Frivillig hjälpverksamhet > kulturstudier > Japan
• Japan

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

ISBN

• 0521869498
• 9780521869492
• 0511294085
• 9780511294082

LCCN

• 2006019640
• 9780521869492

OCLC

• 70129137
• SCSB-13849038

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library