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As Cidades Digitais E O Reforço Da Cidadania: Uma Abordagem Sociológica Do Gaia Global E Do Aveiro Digital, Barbara Barbosa Neves
As Cidades Digitais E O Reforço Da Cidadania: Uma Abordagem Sociológica Do Gaia Global E Do Aveiro Digital, Barbara Barbosa Neves
Barbara Barbosa Neves
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Civic Responsibility And Patterns Of Voluntary Participation Around The World, Mary Alice Haddad
Civic Responsibility And Patterns Of Voluntary Participation Around The World, Mary Alice Haddad
Mary Alice Haddad
This article seeks to explain why different types of volunteer organizations are prevalent in different countries. It hypothesizes that patterns of volunteer participation are a function of citizen attitudes toward governmental and individual responsibility for caring for society. Those countries (e.g., Japan)—where citizens think that governments should be responsible for dealing with social problems—will tend to have higher participation in embedded volunteer organizations, such as parent-teacher associations. Those countries (e.g., the United States)—where citizens think that individuals should take responsibility for dealing with social problems—will tend to have more participation in nonembedded, organizations, such as Greenpeace. These hypotheses are tested …