Responding to COVID-19: Community volunteerism and coproduction in China

Miao, Qing; Schwarz, Susan; Schwarz, Gary

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105128

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“…This may be of particular importance when collective quarantine measures are enforced and action is mostly confined to the digital sphere. Some have indeed suggested that digital platforms played a key role in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic (Miao, Schwarz, & Schwarz, 2021).…”

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Prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions. A latent class analysis study during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Italy

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Procentese²,

Gattino³

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Aim. To identify patterns of prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions.Method. Survey data was collected from a sample of Italian adults during the March ̶ May 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Italy. Participants reported on offline and online prosocial behaviours, Sense of Community Responsibility (SoC-R) and perceptions of community resilience. Latent class analysis (LCA) was used for data analysis.Results. A total of 4,045 participants completed the survey and 2,562 were eligible (72% female; mean age 38.7 years). LCA revealed four classes of prosocial behaviours: Money donors (7%), Online & offline helpers (59%), Online health information sharers (21%), and Neighbour helpers (13%). The classes were partially invariant across age groups (18 ̶ 35 and > 35 years). Being a man and higher SoC-R scores were associated with belonging to the Online & offline helper class. Members of this class also reported the greatest perceptions of community resilience.Conclusions. Results offer insight on the multidimensionality of prosociality under collective quarantine conditions. Online & offline helpers could be targeted for promoting sustained altruism and involvement in community organisations. For the other groups, programmes should aim to eliminate barriers to help others in multiple ways.

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Prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions. A latent class analysis study during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Italy

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Gattino³

et al. 2020

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“…Volunteering is a key component of coproduction, since volunteer coworkers actively provide community services to their communities at no cost. In the conditions of socio-economic instability, the participation of coproducers in the sale of public services becomes the most relevant-"the COVID-19 pandemic created a critical need for citizen volunteers working with government to protect public health and to augment overwhelmed public services" [46].…”

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“…If these conditions are not met, it cannot be assumed that coproduction will be successful [48]. The leading role of the state in creating these conditions and developing volunteering from above is an example of top-down and state-driven coproduction that differs from the bottom-up coproduction [46].…”

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Making Room for Volunteer Participation in Managing Public Affairs: A Russian Experience

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In 2018, the United Nations Volunteers organization recognized that the governmental support for volunteering is a superior public management practice, offering the much-needed fuel for the integration of volunteering in politics, law-making, and social planning at the government level. The present article analyzes the current situation of governmental support for volunteering at federal, regional, and local levels of public administration in the Russian Federation as a precondition for making coproduction of public services possible. The analysis is based on the scrutiny of documents, a questionnaire survey of Russian volunteers, and an expert poll of public servants and nonprofit organizations (NPO) leaders. The analysis of the state policy of support for volunteering is carried out with respect to the following parameters: the awareness and evaluation of national measures of the governmental support for volunteering, as well as the evaluation of informational, financial, consulting, and organizational measures to support volunteer organizations by regional and municipal civil servants. In a country such as the Russian Federation, where volunteering is a relatively young social phenomenon, public administration needs not only to provide support, but also to administer transformation processes toward sustainable development, relying on the partnership and resources volunteers bring for effectively managing public life.

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“…Environmental events, accidents, pandemics, and major infrastructure decisions, for example, give rise to a broad expression of citizen concerns. Increasingly, given technological and demographic shifts, such participation occurs via online conduits such as blogs and social networking platforms (Liu et al, 2017;Miao et al, 2021). Social media political participation has the potential both to inform effective policy making and to challenge government stability, depending in large part on the official response (Mayer-Schönberger & Lazer, 2007).…”

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A Framework for Government Response to Social Media Participation in Public Policy Making: Evidence from China

Weng

Schwarz

et al. 2021

International Journal of Public Administration

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Responding to COVID-19: Community volunteerism and coproduction in China

Cited by 156 publications

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Prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions. A latent class analysis study during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Italy

Prosocial behaviours under collective quarantine conditions. A latent class analysis study during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Italy

Making Room for Volunteer Participation in Managing Public Affairs: A Russian Experience

A Framework for Government Response to Social Media Participation in Public Policy Making: Evidence from China

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