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William N. Holden R. Daniel Jacobson 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2008,19(4):325-350
Drawing on a range of fieldwork interviews, this paper discusses the opposition of civil society to nonferrous metals mining
in Guatemala. Guatemala’s mineral resources, and government efforts to encourage their extraction, are discussed, as is the
emergent civil society of that nation. Guatemalan civil society has opposed mining due to the impacts of its environmental
effects upon the poor engaged in subsistence agriculture. This opposition has involved protests, community consultations against
mining, and networking with the forces of global civil society. The paper concludes with a discussion of how this opposition
to mining is a manifestation of the opposition to neoliberalism currently underway in Latin America.
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Paul Dekker 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2009,20(3):220-238
Activities in civil society, seen as the sphere of society in which voluntary associations are dominant, are considered an
important source of civility in modern society. By interacting and finding solutions for common problems, members of associations
turn into citizens with a broader perspective and interest in the common good. The evidence for these positive roles is at
best mixed, however. Not voluntarily associating in a separate sphere of civil society, but combining associational with public
and commercial modes of social coordination, appears to offer a more promising option for civilizing modern society. Examples
of hybridity are discussed. The paper concludes with a plea for a clearer recognition in social research of civicness as a
normative perspective.
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Eghosa E. Osaghae 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2006,17(3):233-245
Although it has gained wide currency in the analysis of African politics, civil society remains a “mysterious” concept in need of proper grounding and understanding as an integral part of African social formation. This paper argues that one of the widely acclaimed canonical works in African studies, Peter Ekeh’s theory of colonialism and the two publics in Africa provides one of the most original perspectives for locating and understanding the character of modern civil society as a product of colonialism. In particular, the theory provides an explanation for why primordial attachments have remained fundamental to the structuration of civil society and why state–civil society relations have largely been fractured, instrumentalist, and dialectical in the post-colonial period.
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Eghosa E. OsaghaeEmail: |
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Rita Jalali 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2008,19(2):161-188
This article seeks to understand how the Indian state exercises control over transnational ties between foreign and domestic
actors by examining the national legislative practices that determine receipt of foreign funds and the data on foreign funding
flows to NGOs (a database of more than 18,000 associations). The article shows how legislative practices of democratic states
serve to reduce foreign influence. Issue characteristics are also shown to determine state response to externalization, blocking
transnational ties in “high politics” areas such as minority claims. Finally, within state imposed restrictions, religious
rather than secular organizations remain dominant transnational actors in India. The study contributes evidence to suggest
that contrary to the arguments of world polity theory and many transnational social movement scholars, states continue to
remain powerful actors limiting transnationalization.
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Rita JalaliEmail: |
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Maria Ludovica Murazzani 《Transition Studies Review》2009,16(2):501-509
The role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the United Nations (UN), as well as in world politics in general, is
increasingly gaining the attention of scholars of international law, political science and social anthropology. Using extensive
earlier research on NGO-UN relations and on the concept of global governance, it is concluded that although NGOs are becoming
increasingly influential actors on the international arena, several problems impede their influence from growing within the
UN. Once the inefficiencies of NGOs participation in United Nations’ bodies and institutions have been described, we propose
some modalities of reform of this Organization, with the purpose of improving the involvement of world civil society in UN
decision-making processes, and increasing its democratic profile. Finally, the study suggests several areas that require future
research and more in-depth study in order to make predictions about how NGO-UN relations will evolve in the coming decades.
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Maria Ludovica MurazzaniEmail: |
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Aditi Mitra J. David Knottnerus 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2008,19(3):242-267
This study addresses issues related to inequality formation and reproduction, especially in regard to gender dynamics operating
in a non-western society. Grounded in a post-colonial understanding of urban educated upper and middle class women NGO volunteers
in contemporary India, it analyzes how they negotiate new approaches to challenge existing traditional gender roles, yet in
critical ways contribute to their reproduction, particularly the traditional concept of ideal Indian womanhood. Employing
structural ritualization theory we examine how ritualized symbolic practices related to the traditional concepts of caretaking,
sacrifice, and the concept of natural sexual differences continue to be emphasized in a generation confronted with conflicting
expectations about modern women’s roles. Twenty-one testimonies provide the major source of evidence along with data gathered
through participant observation. This research enhances our understanding of the power of rituals and how they can continue
to shape the cognitions and activities of actors.
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Aditi MitraEmail: |
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T. Olaf Corry 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2006,17(4):302-323
According to enthusiasts the concept of global civil society is spreading rapidly and becoming pivotal to the reconfiguring of the statist paradigm. However, critics have recently grown more numerous and outspoken in opposition to the term claiming that it is actually perpetuating statism by grafting the idea of civil society onto the global by way of an unhelpful domestic analogy. This paper examines the role the concept is playing in perpetuating/reconfiguring statism. First it summarizes current criticism by identifying three basic accusations: the ambiguity of the term, the “domestic fallacy,” and the undemocratic effects of using it. Second, these criticisms are considered in turn and it is concluded that all three points relate, ultimately, back to the failure of the critics themselves and some global civil society theorists to move beyond a state-centered framework of interpretation. In the final section it is shown how global civil society discourse is beginning to move not only the concept of “civil society” away from its state-centred historical meanings, but also how it is contributing to changing the content of the concept of “the global.”
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Lynn Parker 《Clinical Social Work Journal》2009,37(3):248-255
Power disparities underlie many of the issues that couples bring for therapy. People in relationships are not equal; often
one partner is systematically conferred unearned advantage and dominance. This article synthesizes results from three qualitative
research studies to propose a social justice approach for clinical practice with couples. Interventions are suggested to keep
issues of power and privilege a central focus while addressing the ordinary issues partners present for therapy.
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Lynn ParkerEmail: |
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Top-Down Civic Projects Are Not Grassroots Associations: How The Differences Matter in Everyday Life
Nina Eliasoph 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2009,20(3):291-308
Research on civic associations blurs an important distinction between the unfunded, informal, ongoing associations that theorists
like de Tocqueville described versus current participatory democracy projects that are funded by the state and large nongovernmental
organizations, are open to all, and are usually short-term. Based on a long-term ethnography of youth programs in the United
States, this paper shows that entities like these, which participants and researchers alike often called “volunteer” or “civic”
groups, operate very differently from traditional civic groups. The ethnography systematically details prevalent tensions
that actors face when they try to cultivate the civic spirit in these increasingly typical organizations.
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Nina EliasophEmail: |
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Plurality rule is mostly criticized from being capable of choosing an alternative considered as worst by a strict majority.
This paper considers elections in which the agenda consists of potential candidates strategically choosing whether or not
to enter the election. In this context, we examine the ability of scoring rules to fulfil the Condorcet criterion. We show
for the case of three potential candidates that Plurality rule is the only scoring rule that satisfies a version of the Condorcet
criterion in two cases: 1) when preferences are single-peaked and, 2) when preferences are single-dipped.
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Bernardo MorenoEmail: |
M. Socorro Puy (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Patrick Bond 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2006,17(4):357-369
This paper considers three different conceptualizations – three politico-ideological perspectives within civil society – on global-scale economics and geopolitics. The standpoints can be termed “Global justice movements,” “Third World nationalism,” and the “Post-Washington Consensus.” These three perspectives stand in contrast to the fusion of neoliberal economics and neoconservative politics that dominates the contemporary world. The three approaches sometimes converge, but more often than not they are in conflict; as are the civil society institutions that cohere to the three different political ideologies. From the three different analyses flow different strategies, concrete campaigning tactics, and varying choices of allies. The World Social Forum provides hints of a potentially unifying approach within the global justice movements based upon the practical themes of “decommodification” and “deglobalization” (of capital). It is, however, only by facing up to the ideological divergences that the global justice movement can enhance its presence.
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Patrick Bond (Director)Email: |
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The paper differentiates between three conceptualizations of organizational networks: as resources, as organizational logic, and as a change mechanism. We integrate and apply these conceptualizations in one of the first comprehensive studies of private business schools in post-socialism. Using case studies, content analysis of websites, and an open-ended survey of administrators, we show how East-West networks helped in establishing a new type of organization at the end of socialism, how schools use networking as a core organizational principle to enhance efficacy and legitimacy, and how their activities help build capitalism from the bottom up by transmitting market-based knowledge to post-socialist economic actors.
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Nina BandeljEmail: |
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Suzanne Heller Clain 《Journal of Labor Research》2008,29(3):205-218
I investigate how living wage legislation affects poverty. I find evidence that living wage ordinances modestly reduce poverty
rates where such ordinances are enacted. However, there is no evidence that state minimum wage laws do so. The difference
in the impacts of the two types of legislation conceivably stems from a difference in the party responsible for bearing the
burden of the cost.
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Suzanne Heller ClainEmail: |
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Ferenc Miszlivetz 《Transition Studies Review》2009,15(4):623-635
The economic, political and social transition processes of the last two decades, far from being in harmony, clearly have a
detrimental rather than an enriching influence on each other. These processes will never become harmonised just by themselves
in a natural fashion. The worst obstacle of a successful transformation is that the chief actors, such as the government,
the market and the representatives of the society. The Prince, the Merchant and the Citizen do not show the necessary commitment,
competence and determination to create a new, effective type of partnership. This is a challenge which urgently demands answers
on all levels of governance, economic and social life. This must be done in the frames of local communities, and on the regional,
the European and the global levels. Nearly twenty years after the political turnabout, Hungary now needs a new social contract
and must lay down the ethical, political, institutional and intellectual foundations for its twenty-first century democracy.
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Ferenc MiszlivetzEmail: |
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Pat Sable 《Clinical Social Work Journal》2008,36(1):21-30
This paper explores the concept of adult attachment. Although attachment theory is now getting a great deal of attention,
there is not yet a clear picture of what it means to be attached in adulthood or what the clinical applications of the approach
might be. Using Bowlby’s distinctive ethological-evolutionary framework and updating it with findings from neurobiology and
attachment research, it is proposed there is an attachment behavioral system that operates throughout the lives of adults
and that this changes the way we understand our clients’ distress and carry out psychotherapy.
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Pat SableEmail: |
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The situation in Afghanistan today is not what the international community was planning it to be, 7 years ago when the Bonn
Agreement was signed. Deterioration of security, weak governance, corruption, high narcotic production and trade, slow reconstruction
process and consequent people’s disappointment are some of the features of that situation. Kabul and its international partners
had a very little success in restoring peace and security, and a new phase of strategic re-thinking is in process. This article
analyzes the different aspects of Afghan reconstruction and military intervention, their strengths and weaknesses, and outlines
some urgent actions to be taken by all concerned actors.
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Antonella DeleddaEmail: |
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James Monks 《Journal of Labor Research》2007,28(3):487-501
Part-time and full-time non-tenure-track faculty currently represent almost half of all faculty in U.S. higher education,
yet little is known about their earnings relative to traditional tenure-track faculty. I find that full-time non-tenure-track
faculty earn approximately 26% less per hour from their academic institution and 18% less in total earnings from all sources
per hour than comparable tenure-track assistant professors. Part-time non-tenure-track faculty earn 64% less per hour from
their institution, but only 1% less in total earnings per hour, than tenure-track assistant professors.
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James MonksEmail: |
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Periklis Polyzoidis 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2009,20(2):188-206
The majority of Greek nonprofit organizations active in the field of human services belong in two categories: the first is
homes for the elderly that provide assisted living to seniors and the second is philanthropic societies, which primarily fight
against poverty. This paper argues that this sector is small in terms of membership, voluntary performance, beneficiaries,
and budget. Nonprofit organizations have succeeded in developing close relationships with local communities, as well as in
providing essential alleviation quickly and flexibly. On the other hand, organizations are very dependent on the state and
they keep beneficiaries away from decision making; moreover, their contribution to building social capital is trivial and
participation in policy-making minimal. The lack of collective representation prevents an open society and hinders communication
with government.
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Periklis PolyzoidisEmail: |
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Margaret Sherrard Sherraden John Stringham Simona Costanzo Sow Amanda Moore McBride 《Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations》2006,17(2):156-173
International voluntary service (IVS) has a significant and growing presence worldwide. IVS is a policy and program tool used for international development aid, humanitarian relief, and promotion of international understanding. In the last century, forms of IVS have proliferated, while research on scope, effectiveness, and impacts has lagged behind. We propose a typology that addresses duration, nature of service, and degree of “internationality.” Further, we identify IVS networks and support organizations that bolster the capacity of IVS sending and hosting organizations, and in this process create large and little recognized international institutions of cooperation. Building on the typology, we suggest program, policy, and research implications to advance knowledge of the role of IVS, its role in global civil society, and impacts it may have on human conditions and cross-cultural understanding.
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Margaret Sherrard SherradenEmail: |
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Evidence of the Effectiveness of Child Support and Visitation: Examining Food Insecurity among Children with Nonresident Fathers 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Over six million children who reside with a single mother and have a father who lives elsewhere are food insecure. This study
examines the effectiveness of two aspects of nonresident father involvement, in-person visitation and financial contributions,
in reducing food acquisition problems using data from the National Survey of America’s Families. We find that frequent visits
by nonresident fathers are related to a reduced likelihood that the resident mother’s household will experience indicators
of food insecurity. The effects of child support receipt on reducing food acquisition problems, however, are less consistent.
Our results support policies designed to recognize and encourage nonresidential parents to make both monetary and nonmonetary
contributions to the lives of their children.
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Susan D. StewartEmail: |