Kamerade, D., Crotty, J. and Ljubownikow, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-7312-4050 (2016) Civil liberties and Volunteering in Six Former Soviet Union Countries. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 45 (6). pp. 1150-1168. ISSN 0899-7640
Abstract
To contribute to the debate as to whether volunteering is an outcome of democratization rather than a driver of it, we analyze how divergent democratization pathways in six countries of the former Soviet Union have led to varied levels of volunteering. Using data from the European Values Study, we find that Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia—which followed a Europeanization path—have high and increasing levels of civil liberties and volunteering. In Russia and Belarus, following a pre-emption path, civil liberties have remained low and volunteering has declined. Surprisingly, despite the Orange Revolution and increased civil liberties, volunteering rates in Ukraine have also declined. The case of Ukraine indicates that the freedom to participate is not always taken up by citizens. Our findings suggest it is not volunteering that brings civil liberties, but rather that increased civil liberties lead to higher levels of volunteering
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Authors. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | volunteering; social origins theory; cross-national comparison; democratization; former Soviet Union countries |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Management School (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2016 16:38 |
Last Modified: | 30 Jun 2017 17:02 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764016649689 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0899764016649689 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:96970 |