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Télécharger le livre :  The Power of Morality in Movements
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The Power of Morality in Movements


Anders Sevelsted , Jonas Toubøl


This Open Access book explores the role of morality in social movements. Morality has always been central to social movements whether it be in the form of the moral foundations of movement claims, politics and ideologies, the values motivating participation, the new...

Parution : 2022-11-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Society: Concepts, Challenges, Contexts
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Civil Society: Concepts, Challenges, Contexts


Michael Hoelscher , Regina A. List , Alexander Ruser , Stefan Toepler


This volume is a collection of original essays prepared by colleagues, collaborators, and former students on the occasion of Helmut K. Anheier’s 65th birthday and retirement from the University of Heidelberg. An internationally recognized pioneer of nonprofit and civil...

Parution : 2022-05-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering
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Accounting for the Varieties of Volunteering


Tania Cappadozzi , Ksenija Fonovic , Riccardo Guidi


For a long time, volunteering lacked standardized data sets allowing methodologically robust comparative analyses and global policy making. Starting from 2011, the International Labour Office (ILO) and the United Nations (UN) have provided global statistical standards...

Parution : 2021-07-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Social and Impact Economy
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The New Social and Impact Economy


Anna Domaradzka , Benjamin Gidron


This edited volume discusses the development of the new social and impact economy in ten countries around the globe. The new social and impact economy is an attempt to conceptualize developments after the 2008 economic crisis, which emphasized the pifalls of the...

Parution : 2021-05-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Civic Engagement in Scandinavia
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Civic Engagement in Scandinavia


Lars Skov Henriksen , Kristin Strømsnes , Lars Svedberg


Since the 1990’s, a number of studies have documented a remarkable high and stable amount of popular engagement in civic organizations in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Often these countries have been considered deviant cases against the proliferating decline of social...

Parution : 2018-10-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Scandinavian Civil Society and Social Transformations
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Scandinavian Civil Society and Social Transformations


Bernard Enjolras , Kristin Strømsnes


This book aims at presenting a conceptual apparatus and empirical analysis of the ways Nordic civil society is affected by social transformations by focusing on the Norwegian case. The Norwegian empirical focus allows identifying processes and factors of change that are...

Parution : 2018-04-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Corporate Social Responsibility and the Three Sectors in Asia
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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Three Sectors in Asia


Samiul Hasan


This volume investigates how much governmental control is needed to reign in corporate and business greed and to make business "socially responsible" in Asia. It also questions whether business entities need to be reigned in by the government itself,...

Parution : 2017-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective
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German Philanthropy in Transatlantic Perspective


Arnd Bauerkämper , Gregory R. Witkowski


This volume examines philanthropic practices against the backdrop of the continuities, disruptions and changes in twentieth century German socio-political relations. It presents a differentiated understanding of the relationship between philanthropy and...

Parution : 2016-10-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Perspectives on Volunteering
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Perspectives on Volunteering


Jacqueline Butcher , Christopher J. Einolf


?This volume overlooks the distinct expressions and awareness of volunteering in the lived reality of people from different regions of the world. By casting the net widely this book not only expands the geographic reach of experiences, models and case studies but also...

Parution : 2016-08-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Innovations in the Urban Context
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Social Innovations in the Urban Context


Taco Brandsen , Sandro Cattacin , Adalbert Evers , Annette Zimmer


This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe and wicked problems with which contemporary societies are struggling. Especially in times of economic crisis,...

Parution : 2016-04-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Human Security and Philanthropy
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Human Security and Philanthropy


Samiul Hasan


Muslims for hundreds of years have been involved in philanthropic activities targeting poor and needy people through varied types of ‘third sector’ organizations (TSOs). Nonetheless, many people in Muslim majority countries (MMCs), not having freedom from hunger, face...

Parution : 2015-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Religion and Volunteering
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Religion and Volunteering


Jacques Haers , Lesley Hustinx , Sara Mels , Johan Von Essen


Religion is considered a key predictor of volunteering: the more religious people are, the more likely they are to volunteer. This positive association enjoys significant support in current research; in fact, it could be considered the ‘default perspective’ on the...

Parution : 2014-07-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa
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The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa


Ebenezer Obadare


This volume brings together the most up to date analyses of civil society in Africa from the best scholars and researchers working on the subject. Being the first of its kind, it casts a panoramic look at the African continent, drawing out persisting, if often...

Parution : 2013-09-21
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Télécharger le livre :  East Asian Social Movements
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East Asian Social Movements


Jeffrey Broadbent , Vicky Brockman


In the study of civil society and social movements, most cases are based in Western Europe and North America. These two areas of the world have similar histories and political ideals and structures in common which in turn, affect the structure of its civil society.In...

Parution : 2011-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan
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Civic Engagement in Contemporary Japan


Masayuki Deguchi , Yuko Nishimura , Henk Vinken , Bruce L. J. White


Civic engagement is a concept of action that has become part of common vocabulary, not only in the West but also in many other regions of the world as well. A growing, yet still small number of scholarly works has recently emerged showing how in Japan citizen activism,...

Parution : 2010-03-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Policy Initiatives Towards the Third Sector in International Perspective
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Policy Initiatives Towards the Third Sector in International Perspective


Michal Bar , Benjamin Gidron


Over the past decade, the third sector has had tremendous growth worldwide in both size and importance. As many countries struggle to address this changing reality, many have adopted policy initiatives aimed at changing the ways the third sector is addressed. It is a...

Parution : 2009-12-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Innovation in Strategic Philanthropy
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Innovation in Strategic Philanthropy


Helmut K. Anheier , Adele Simmons , David Winder


Philanthropy has been around for thousands of years but the study of philanthropic organizations and their role in a civil society is still recent. Most of the research focuses on organizations and institutions in developed market economies, in particular the United...

Parution : 2007-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Unique Environmentalism
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Unique Environmentalism


Oystein Bortne , Gunnar Grendstad , Per Selle , Kristin Stromsnes


their collective action. The more unique the case, the more we need to study it not only to understand the case itself but also to understand the structure and limits of environmentalism in general. We hope that we have been able to show the value of this research...

Parution : 2006-11-28
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