This study is part of the growing literature on the effects on civic engagement of attitudinal
predictors, such as trust, along with structural predictors. Drawing data from the 2005 …

International development programs strive not only to alleviate poverty but to transform
people, aid workers and recipients alike. Becoming One grapples with this process by …

We examine the effect of participation in neighborhood association (NHA) activities on
volunteering using the 2010 Japanese General Social Survey data. We find that controlling …

This book describes the origin, development and current state of volunteerism in Asia and
Hong Kong. It also presents a field-tested model of empowering through volunteerism …

In this paper we subject volunteering within the neoliberal paradigm to a Gramscian
analysis. We argue that the rendering of volunteering as a civic good forms part of the …

Disasters tend to stimulate the creation of spontaneous informal activity by self-organising
voluntary groups and individuals. This has been demonstrated by the transnational surge of …

This chapter examines critical civil society scholarship with particular attention to research
that originates or is focused on countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Central and South …

Over the last three decades, Japanese NGOs have become increasingly engaged in the
delivery of Japanese foreign aid, and humanitarian responses to national emergencies …

The growing interests in global citizenship education (GCE) necessitates educators to truly
understand what it means to implement such programs, for one's views on global citizenship …

How to measure a psychological construct in cross-national comparison: Regarding Rhoads et
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