Politics and Volunteering in Japan : A Global Perspective (Hardcover)

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 voluntarism model; 6. Cross-national volunteer participation: testing the community voluntarism model; 7. Conclusion.