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participation in political activities in Asian countries. Specifically, we ask how nonprofit engagement fosters active political activities in Asia. Using the Asian Barometer Survey, which provides information on ... Barometer Survey, which provides information on NPO participation, political contact, and political participation activities, this study empirically examines the correlation between nonprofit participation
Churches have a hard time defending their moral values in the political sphere of an ever more secular and liberal Western Europe. A largely neglected means of navigating this crisis is through the ... these social services are related to moral issues. Welfare state; Religion; Morality policy - Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science, LudwigMaximilians-University Munich (LMU), Munich
Drawing upon Hannah Arendt’s adherence to existential phenomenology, the article advances a political understanding and interpretation of community organizing. Arendt, it is maintained, offers ... ). The sociological imagination . Harmondsworth: Pelican. Mouffe , C. ( 2005 ). On the political . Routledge. Parekh , B. ( 1981 ). Hannah arendt and the search for a new political philosophy . Macmillan
. Conscience also provides an obvious connection between religious dissent and political rebellion, which is why it must be central to any future account of Lollardy’s relationship to class struggle or sedition ... of political revolution—were thus clearly by no means unfounded. Indeed, as the Marxist historian Rodney Hilton notes: “Although the Lollards were usually quietist rather than politically militant
exercise of citizenship while illustrating the strategies used by native people to overcome legal and political constraints to associationism. ... expense of those that promote political participation (Pacheco, 2009) as the most critical limitations to its development and civic intervention. Although the overall assumption is that the long colonial
How do nonstate organizations carry out their programs in political contexts hostile to civil society activity? This paper examines the case of refugee-supporting organizations in Turkey, which hosts ... ; Wiktorowicz, 2000) . A state may also strategically delegate tasks to nonstate actors—even potentially oppositional groups—to preserve its fiscal and political strength (Brooke, 2019; Cammett & MacLean, 2014
it also deterministically brought about Le bourgeois gentilhomme. Its conception is a direct result of the diplomatic and political relations between France and the Ottoman Empire. The alliance that ... “Louis XIV had inherited a ticklish friendship with the Ottoman sultans from his royal predecessors; he had to balance its upkeep against the offence it gave to his European allies and the political
6 (= never). Enrollment in a membership association is a binary variable reflecting enrollment in a political association, trade association, social service group, citizen movement, religious group ... %), the second largest to cooperative associations (18.4%), and the third largest to hobby groups (15.5%). Citizen movements (2.3%) represented the smallest portion, political Volunteering for protection of
in this cognitive change and bringing up, as recently pointed out by Mair et al. (2023) and by Battilana and Casciaro (2021) , the political nature of social innovation. The notion of heterotopias ... ., 2019, p. 890) .’ Clearly, being social innovation an umbrella concept and a ‘‘deeply political boundary object’’ (Pel & Bauler, 2014) , it is important to clarify the position and perspective taken
motivates a political party to develop overseas development volunteering projects for members? How do such activities affect individual volunteers and the party, more broadly? To address these questions, this ... develop a framework for analysing drivers and effects of party-supported volunteering. We argue that political parties are under-researched sending communities, and that development volunteering constitutes
Our goal is to outline the concept of communal labor in ecovillages of Brazil. To do that, we considered three elements: (1) political orientation for self-sufficiency; (2) technical-productive ... rationality and a political ecology nature that go beyond conventional disciplinary areas, and approach a new scientific paradigm (Boeira, 2002) . We addressed the ecovillage organizational arrangement under
‘performance paradox’ in the management of timebanks in the voluntary sector. We draw on political discourse theory to characterise and evaluate associated challenges, suggesting that, when viewed against a host ... economy without adequate support. Instead of taking up a position alongside more traditional forms of volunteering, timebanking is more likely to be subsumed by them. Political discourse theory; Timebanks
different object. This strikes a chord with how Beckett’s characters embody his poetics of ‘senility,’ and leads to the political implications of freedom without hope or meaning, which is the infinite task of ... “the Real is defined as the impossible qua discursive formalization” (142), and argues that the play assumes a political implication of its own by revealing this very inoperativity of the master’s
) interdependence theory. They argued that each had substantial weakness and proposed the ‘‘social origins’’ theory to better account for social, political, and economic relationships. This theory allowed them to ... noting that despite the considerable differences among these conflicts, a common thread emerges. All three underwent significant political upheavals in the 1990s, signaling potential resolutions to their
control any vestigial queenly status or authority, and guard against the exiled queen becoming a locus for alternative political factions. These queens-in-exile form the focus of this article, which seeks ... within it certain customary roles and an invested authority that could take on something akin to political office, dependent upon the individual. Yet along with such prerogatives, authority, and office
NGOs’ experiences in liberal democratic countries, despite divergent political regimes. Found effects are explained by the combination of the authoritarian government of the CPC with the neoliberal ... Political Science , London , UK The government of the Communist Party of China (CPC) rolled out a national policy to contract out social and welfare services to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 2013
post-colonial ties are familiar with the UK political and educational structure, which makes navigating the British system easier. Sweden, on the other hand, has received refugees from countries which ... demographic change, and places with a more/less supportive political environment. These additional tests allow us to see whether the patterns observed on the country level are likely to be the same regardless
-operational definition; Classification; Satellite accounts; Social origins theory; Political economy Introduction It is perhaps only a slight overstatement to suggest that research on nonprofit organizations ... not only originated in the USA in the 1970s but also developed against the background of the country’s economic, political, and social characteristics as major empirical reference. Comparative
NGO sector, the activities of practitioners are frequently construed as volunteering. Additionally, the article contends that concerns about the anti-government or “political” undertone to NGO ... the years. The lingering societal misperceptions about NGO practitioners’ work as volunteering, coupled with mistrust about the potential for political aspects of their work and diminishing interest in
This research analyzes how gender equality influences the participation of European senior citizens in a range of volunteering activities (Social Awareness, Professional and Political, Education, and ... ) influence four categories of volunteering: Social Consciousness, Professional and Political, Education and Leisure, and Religion. Data was taken from the World Values Survey (WVS; 2005 /09, and 2010/14) and
