Politics And Volunteering In Japan
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Author | : Mary Alice Haddad |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 2007-02-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139463039 |
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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.
Author | : Mary Alice Haddad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Community organization |
ISBN | : 9780511296437 |
Download Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Mary Alice Haddad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2007-02-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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This book explains volunteer participation around the world and investigates civic participation in Japanese society.
Author | : Lynne Y. Nakano |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Voluntarism |
ISBN | : 9780415323161 |
Download Community Volunteers in Japan Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Based on extensive original research, this book explores the reality of volunteering in an urban residential Japanese neighbourhood.
Author | : Henk Vinken |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2010-03-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1441915044 |
Download Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Civic engagement is a concept of action that has become part of common vocabulary, not only in the West but also in many other regions of the world as well. A growing, yet still small number of scholarly works has recently emerged showing how in Japan citizen activism, volunteering, and social action for a public cause are dev- oping. This present volume is another, and in my view, important addition to the body of knowledge on civic engagement in Japan. The majority of books on related issues in Japan take on the perspective of organized civic life, in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or nonprofit organizations (NPOs): we know quite a number of things about the quantitative trends in these organizations, on their positioning, on their difficulties, and on the institutional contexts in which they have to work. We know relatively little – except for a small number of topical qualitative case studies – on broad issues that relate to civic engagement in Japan, inside or outside these formal organizations. This volume is the first to offer a wide scope of broad variety of forms of civic engagement in contemporary Japan. The volume is quite forceful in counterbalancing oversimplified ideas on an “ideal” civil society in which state, market, and civil society organizations are in- pendent and at best take on oppositional stances.
Author | : Susan J. Pharr |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520309979 |
Download Political Women in Japan Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Drawing on interviews with one hundred young Japanese women engaged in a spectrum of voluntary political groups, Susan J. Pharr explores how politically active women overcome the constraints that bar or limit the political participation of the average woman. The book treats political volunteers as agents of social change in a process of role redefinition by which prevailing concepts of women's roles gradually adjust to accommodate political behavior. Tracing developments that led to the grant of suffrage and other political rights to women during the Allied occupation, Pharr sets the stage for an analysis of that process as it unfolds in the experience of individual women. She uses women's images of self and society and issues of political and gender role socialization, career and life expectations, and political role and participation to develop a three-fold typology for looking at political women in Japan. She examines both the satisfactions of political volunteerism—from the exhilaration of addressing a crowd from a sound truck to the pleasure of speaking "men's language"—and the psychological and social costs associated with it. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
Author | : Frank J. Schwartz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2003-10-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521534628 |
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Author | : Mary Alice Haddad |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107014077 |
Download Building Democracy in Japan Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book offers a grassroots perspective and holistic understanding of Japan's democratization process and what it means for the nation today.
Author | : Paola Cavaliere |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004285156 |
Download Promising Practices: Women Volunteers in Contemporary Japanese Religious Civil Society Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Based upon a survey of five faith-based volunteer groups, Promising Practices offers valuable insights and fresh perspectives into the ways women’s participation in religious civic organizations may work as a gateway toward participatory democracy. By approaching women’s faith-based volunteering as a social practice, the book engages with three of the most important dimensions of civil society: gender, religion, and democracy. Cavaliere teases out the complexity of interactions among these three dimensions of civic life through stories of individual women who volunteer for three different religious organizations. The volume examines how faith-based volunteering is experienced by women in contemporary Japan and how it becomes a site of empowering and disempowering practices through which women balance the benefits and the costs of personal shifts, socio-economic changes and democratic transformation.
Author | : Yasutami Shimomura |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2016-01-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137505389 |
Download Japan’s Development Assistance Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Once the world's largest ODA provider, contemporary Japan seems much less visible in international development. However, this book demonstrates that Japan, with its own aid philosophy, experiences, and models of aid, has ample lessons to offer to the international community as the latter seeks new paradigms of development cooperation.