Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Performing Their Civic Duty: A Theory of Volunteer Participation
- 2 Patterns of Participation: Volunteering around the World
- 3 Volunteering in Japan: Not Where You Would Expect
- 4 Practices That Count: Legitimizing, Organizing, and Funding Volunteers
- 5 Engaged Communities: The Community Volunteerism Model
- 6 Cross-National Volunteer Participation: Testing the Community Volunteerism Model
- 7 Conclusion: Practicing Citizenship
- Appendix A Research Design and Methods
- Appendix B Membership Source Information
- Appendix C Volunteering in Kashihara, Sakata, and Sanda
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix A - Research Design and Methods
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Performing Their Civic Duty: A Theory of Volunteer Participation
- 2 Patterns of Participation: Volunteering around the World
- 3 Volunteering in Japan: Not Where You Would Expect
- 4 Practices That Count: Legitimizing, Organizing, and Funding Volunteers
- 5 Engaged Communities: The Community Volunteerism Model
- 6 Cross-National Volunteer Participation: Testing the Community Volunteerism Model
- 7 Conclusion: Practicing Citizenship
- Appendix A Research Design and Methods
- Appendix B Membership Source Information
- Appendix C Volunteering in Kashihara, Sakata, and Sanda
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book seeks the answer to two questions: Why do some communities have much more participation in organizations that have close, embedded relationships with the government, whereas other communities favor organizations with more distant relationships with the government? And why do some communities have much higher rates of volunteering than other, similarly situated communities in the same country? Chapter 1 has developed a theory of volunteer participation that explains both the types of volunteer participation – answering the first question – as well as the rate of volunteer participation – answering the second question. The chapters that followed tested this theory and from the results built a fully specified model that predicts both the types as well as the rates of volunteer participation for any given community.
CHAPTER 2 METHODS
The first task is to test whether the ideas citizens have about governmental and individual responsibility affect the types of organizations they join. To test these two hypotheses, I use data collected from eight different organizations that are active around the world. Three of the organizations – parent-teacher associations, the Red Cross, and volunteer fire departments – are embedded organizations with close relationships with particular government bureaucracies. Their embeddedness is determined by their institutional relationship with the government. Both PTAs and volunteer fire departments have close institutional relationships with particular government bureaucracies – schools in the case of PTAs and municipal fire departments in the case of volunteer fire departments. The Red Cross also works very closely with government bureaucracies.
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- Politics and Volunteering in JapanA Global Perspective, pp. 175 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007