Mary Alice Haddad

Bio: Mary Alice Haddad is an academic researcher from Wesleyan University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Civil society & Democracy. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 20 publications receiving 329 citations.

Civic Responsibility and Patterns of Voluntary Participation around the World

Abstract: This article seeks to explain why different types of volunteer organizations are prevalent in different countries. It hypothesizes that patterns of volunteer participation are a function of citizen...

Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective

Abstract: 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.

Building Democracy in Japan

Abstract: 1. Making democracy real 2. The 'tipping point' model of generational change 3. Building the institutions of democracy: 1853-1990 4. Power to the people: democratization of the government 5. From state to society: democratization of traditional, community-based organizations 6. Inclusive diversity: new-style civil society organizations and Japanese democracy 7. More access but less power?: Women in Japanese politics 8. Conclusion: where do we go from here?

Community Determinates of Volunteer Participation and the Promotion of Civic Health: The Case of Japan

Abstract: Why are some communities more civically engaged than others? Why do some communities provide services with volunteer labor whereas others rely primarily on government provision? When communities pr...

A State-in-Society Approach to the Nonprofit Sector: Welfare Services in Japan

Abstract: This article uses the case of Japan to advocate for a new theoretical approach to the study of the nonprofit sector. In particular, it examines how theoretical models based on the European and North American experiences have difficulty explaining the relationship between the nonprofit sector and the state in Japan, and argues that a state-in-society approach is better suited to explaining complex state–society relations in diverse cultural contexts. It does this by examining the evolution of social welfare service provision in Japan. This article is motivated to explain an apparent paradox: Japan’s recent efforts toward greater government decentralization and privatization of services have empowered and enlarged the nonprofit sector even as they have also expanded the scope of state authority and enhanced its legitimacy.

Bowling alone: The collapse and revival of American community

Abstract: The present historical moment may seem a particularly inopportune time to review Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam's latest exploration of civic decline in America. After all, the outpouring of volunteerism, solidarity, patriotism, and self-sacrifice displayed by Americans in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks appears to fly in the face of Putnam's central argument: that \"social capital\" -defined as \"social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them\" (p. 19)'has declined to dangerously low levels in America over the last three decades. However, Putnam is not fazed in the least by the recent effusion of solidarity. Quite the contrary, he sees in it the potential to \"reverse what has been a 30to 40-year steady decline in most measures of connectedness or community.\"' As an example of how the current \"war on terrorism\" could generate a durable civic renewal, Putnam points to the burst in civic practices that occurred during and after World War II, which he says \"permanently marked\" the generation that lived through it and had a \"terrific effect on American public life over the last half-century.\" 3 If Americans can follow this example and channel their current civic