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Author: Colin Rochester
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1837642028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Draws on a range of empirical studies of aspects of the history of voluntary action. This title includes chapters that range across two centuries and a variety of fields of activity, geographical areas and organisational forms.
Author: Colin Rochester
Publisher: Apollo Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781845194246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The current debate on the growing role of the voluntary and community or -third- sector in delivering public and social policy is impoverished by its lack of understanding of the historical events which have shaped the sector and its relationship with the state. This widely anticipated book draws on a range of empirical studies of aspects of the history of voluntary action to illuminate and inform this debate. Chapter contributions range across two centuries and a variety of fields of activity, geographical areas and organisational forms. Four key themes are addressed: The 'moving frontier' between the state and voluntary action; the distribution of roles and functions between them; and the nature of their inter-relationship. The 'springs' of voluntary action - what makes people get involved in voluntary organisations or support them financially. Organisational challenges for voluntary agencies, including growth, cleaving to their missions and values, and survival. Issues of continuity and change: how and to what extent has the nature of voluntary action and its role in society remained essentially the same despite the changing context? This book is essential reading for all practitioners involved in charities and voluntary and non-profit organisations, for those who work at the interface between government and the third sector and for those who are involved in making and implementing public and social policy.
Author: Matthew Hilton
Publisher: OUP/British Academy
Published: 2011-08-04
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780197264829
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides the historical background to the rise of the Big Society. Voluntarism has evolved over the last hundred years to adapt to changing circumstances, drawing up new agendas, tackling old problems, and acting as an alternative to state provision and as a catalyst for further government action.
Author: C. Rochester
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-20
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1137029463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence has led to a narrow and distorted view of what voluntary action involves and how it is undertaken. This book reasserts the case for a broader view of voluntarism as a unique set of autonomous activities.
Author: Paul Dekker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1461501458
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines volunteering in detail from a civil society perspective, using empirical data garnered from various sources for countries all over the globe. The contributions deal with a broad spectrum of questions, ranging from the diversity, social and cultural determinants and organizational settings of volunteering, to its possible individual, social, and political effects.
Author: Rajesh Tandon
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Study Relates To Voluntary Action In India And Describes And Analyses The History Evolution And Challenges Facing Voluntary Associators An Dcivil Society In India Presently Seeks To Provide An Insight Into The Dynamics Of The Relationship Between Voluntary Action And Government. Has 8 Chapters. Makes Suggestions For Strengthening The Voluntary Sector.
Author: Nancy Burns
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 0674029089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why, after several generations of suffrage and a revival of the women's movement in the late 1960s, do women continue to be less politically active than men? Why are they less likely to seek public office or join political organizations? The Private Roots of Public Action is the most comprehensive study of this puzzle of unequal participation. The authors develop new methods to trace gender differences in political activity to the nonpolitical institutions of everyday life--the family, school, workplace, nonpolitical voluntary association, and church. Different experiences with these institutions produce differences in the resources, skills, and political orientations that facilitate participation--with a cumulative advantage for men. In addition, part of the solution to the puzzle of unequal participation lies in politics itself: where women hold visible public office, women citizens are more politically interested and active. The model that explains gender differences in participation is sufficiently general to apply to participatory disparities among other groups--among the young, the middle-aged, and the elderly or among Latinos, African-Americans and Anglo-Whites.
Author: Brewis, Georgina
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2021-09-14
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1447357213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the consolidation of the welfare state in the 1940s, and its reshaping in the 2010s, the boundaries between the state, voluntary action, the family and the market were called into question. This interdisciplinary book explores the impact of these ‘transformational moments’ on the role, position and contribution of voluntary action to social welfare. It considers how different narratives have been constructed, articulated and contested by public, political and voluntary sector actors, making comparisons within and across the 1940s and 2010s. With a unique analysis of recent and historical material, this important book illuminates contemporary debates about voluntary action and welfare.
Author: C. Rochester
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-20
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1137029463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volunteering and voluntary organizations have become increasingly important in British social and political life but at a cost. Greater prominence has led to a narrow and distorted view of what voluntary action involves and how it is undertaken. This book reasserts the case for a broader view of voluntarism as a unique set of autonomous activities.
Author: Sidney Verba
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995-09-26
Total Pages: 668
ISBN-13: 9780674942936
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book confirms the idea put forth by Tocqueville that American democracy is rooted in civic voluntarism—citizens’ involvement in family, work, school, and religion, as well as in their political participation as voters, campaigners, protesters, or community activists. The authors analyze civic activity with a massive survey of 15,000 people.
