Institutional Roots of Volunteering

Demand and Supply Side View on the Factors Affecting Size of Non-Profit Economy

“…This compares favourably to the …ndings of Ben-Ner and van Hoomissen (1992) or Corbin (1999), and speci…cally tends to promote the role of wealth in sector development. Similarly noteworthy is also the positive e¤ect of government transfer expenditure on the variations in the size of the non-pro…t sector, which is in line with …ndings of Bielefeld (2000) or Salamon and Sokolowski (2001) and tends to imply some sort of partnership or interdependence between government and non-pro…t sector. Nonetheless, demand side heterogeneity, in particular linguistic fragmentation of society, has also positive e¤ect on the size of the non-pro…t sector, which is in line with predictions of Weisbrod (1998).…”

“…This indicates that no uniform relationship between size of the governmental social (welfare) spending and the size of the non-pro…t sector exists, since di¤erent non-pro…t regime types are proposed: statist, social-democratic, liberal and corporatist type (Salamon and Sokolowski, 2001). Moreover, Kabalo (2009) has even suggested that …fth non-pro…t regime exists, related to power relations between social classes in decolonised and newly emerged states.…”

Volunteering and the gender division of labour: A Franco-British comparison

“…First, there is the role of the state and social policy (Salamon & Sokolowski, 2003). Second, there is the question of 'time availability', since, as Norris and Inglehart (2006) suggest, time free from other responsibilities may be the prerequisite for participation in local groups, community events, and voluntary organisations.…”

Understanding non-participation: perceived barriers in cross-border volunteering among Romanian youth

“…The notion that former communist countries are faced with historical and cultural barriers to volunteering is relatively established and dominates the explanations for the weak voluntary sector in the Eastern European region (GHK, 2010a,b;Juknevicius & Savicka, 2003;Salamon & Sokolowski, 2003). It has been said that in this region, 'the concept of volunteering became obsolete, contaminated by decades of state and party requirements to contribute time and efforts freely for some common social, cultural, or political cause' (Anheier & Salamon, 2001, p. 2).…”