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Politics and volunteering in Japan : a global perspective / Mary Alice Haddad.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haddad, Mary Alice, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voluntarism--Cross-cultural studies.
- Voluntarism.
- Voluntarism--Japan.
- Social participation--Cross-cultural studies.
- Social participation.
- Social participation--Japan.
- Community organization--Cross-cultural studies.
- Community organization.
- Community organization--Japan.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 218 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- This book explains volunteer participation around the world and investigates civic participation in Japanese society.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521869498
- 9780521869492
- OCLC:
- 70129137
- Online:
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