Involvement in voluntary associations in North America and Western Europe: Trends and correlates 1981–2000

Dekker, Paul; Broek, Andries van den

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“…Finally, Dekker and Van den Broek (2005) did not find a general decline in involvement in associations either, nor a trend towards more passive membership. Furthermore, they state that not much is known about face-to-face involvement in voluntary associations: how do members communicate and how often do they meet?…”

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“…Seminal research by Putnam (2000) suggests that participation in civic and community activities has declined. Further research on this matter has generated mixed results (e.g., Paxton 1999;Rotolo 1999;Dekker and Van den Broek 2005;Fischer 2005 Van Ingen andDekker 2011). For instance, Fischer (2005) concludes that membership in civic organizations has not declined or has declined in only a few specific types of organizations.…”

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“…However, as suggested by Dekker and Van den Broek (2005), still little is known about the frequency of participation in the context of voluntary associations, that is, the generation of leisure activities of this type and related travel. Thus, while the literature seems to indicate that the social context (company) for leisure activities is shifting toward more informal social network connections, the differences between formal groups and informal connections, and their activity-travel generation effects, are still poorly understood.…”

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Involvement in clubs or voluntary associations, social networks and activity generation: a path analysis

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Leisure activities have received increasing attention from travel behavior researchers over the past decade. However, these activities are often treated as a single category, neglecting their differences. Whereas most leisure activities are flexible, club activities are usually scheduled longer in advance and are more fixed in time, location and company. Hence, trip-generating properties of club activities are likely to differ from those of other leisure activities. As very little is known about involvement in clubs or voluntary associations in relation to trip generation, voluntary association activities deserve further research in relation to travel. Therefore, in this paper a path analysis is conducted, analyzing the relationships between participation in clubs or voluntary associations, trip frequencies, and social network characteristics. The analyses are based on data collected in 2011 in Eindhoven in the Netherlands in a survey among 516 respondents. The results show interesting relationships between the social context and involvement in clubs. They indicate that people become club members through their social networks, and frequent club activities increase social network size. Family oriented people were found to go less often to clubs. Club membership and the frequency of going to club activities were also found to be affected by socio-demographics, such as gender, age, education, work, presence of young children in the household and owning a season ticket for public transport.

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“…Over the past decade, a lively debate has developed regarding the decline in civic participation observed by some, but not by others, across a number of Western democracies (Paxton, 1999;Putnam, 2000;Stolle & Hooghe, 2003;Dekker & van den Broek, 2005;Listhaug & Grønflaten, 2007). The importance of this debate lies not only in establishing whether Western societies have become more individualistic over time and its citizens increasingly 'hunker down' (to borrow the colloquialism introduced in this respect by Putnam, 2007), but also reflects the central role often attributed to civic engagement for the development and maintenance of democratic values, generalized trust, cooperative norms, racial and religious tolerance, and so on (e.g., Putnam, 2000;Delhey & Newton, 2005;Li, Pickles & Savage, 2005;Terriquez, 2012).…”

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Association Membership and Generalized Trust: Are Connections between Associations Losing their Value?

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2012

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“…Surprisingly, however, this has not happened. Dekker and Van den Broek (2005) for instance show a rise of volunteers in the Netherlands between 1981 and 2000. Only recent studies show, that this rise initially persisted after the turn of the century, but turned into a decline after 2008 (cf.…”

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Churches: Lasting Sources of Civic Engagement? Effects of Secularization and Educational Expansion on Non-religious Volunteering in the Netherlands, 1988 and 2006

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During the last three decades Dutch church attendance rates dropped considerably, while the relative share of volunteers in non-religious organizations decreased at a slower rate. This is an unexpected development given the positive association between religious involvement and volunteering. In this article, we try to account for this development by addressing the following question: Why has a massive and ongoing decline of church attendance in the Netherlands not resulted in a similar drop in the relative number of volunteers in non-religious voluntary organizations? In view of this question, we wonder if the negative effect of declining church attendance on volunteering is perhaps counterbalanced by a positive effect of educational expansion. Our findings reveal that this is indeed the case, but these counterbalancing effects are only modest.Résumé Au cours des trente dernières années, les taux de fréquentation des églises hollandaises ont baissé considérablement, tandis que la part relative des bénévoles dans les organisations laïques a diminué à un rythme plus lent. Ce développement est inattendu étant donné l'association positive entre l'engagement religieux et le bénévolat. Dans cet article, nous tentons d'expliquer cette évolution en nous penchant sur la question suivante : Pourquoi la baisse massive et continue de la fréquentation des églises aux Pays-Bas n'a-t-elle pas entrainé une baisse similaire du nombre relatif de bénévoles dans les organismes bénévoles laïques ? Resumen Durante las tres últimas décadas, las tasas de asistencia a la iglesia danesa han descendido considerablemente, mientras que la participación relativa de voluntarios en organizaciones no religiosas descendían a una tasa más lenta. Esto es un cambio inesperado dada la asociación positiva entre implicación religiosa y voluntariado. En el presente artículo, tratamos de responder a este cambio abordando la siguiente pregunta: >Por qué un descenso masivo y continuo de la asistencia a la iglesia en los Países Bajos no ha dado lugar a una caída similar en el número relativo de voluntarios en organizaciones voluntarias no religiosas? A la vista de esta pregunta, nos preguntamos si el efecto negativo de la descendente asistencia a la iglesia sobre el voluntariado queda compensado quizás por un efecto positivo de la expansión educativa. Nuestros hallazgos revelan que éste es, realmente, el caso, pero estos efectos de contrapeso son sólo modestos.

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Involvement in voluntary associations in North America and Western Europe: Trends and correlates 1981–2000

Cited by 53 publications

References 13 publications

Involvement in clubs or voluntary associations, social networks and activity generation: a path analysis

Involvement in clubs or voluntary associations, social networks and activity generation: a path analysis

Association Membership and Generalized Trust: Are Connections between Associations Losing their Value?

Churches: Lasting Sources of Civic Engagement? Effects of Secularization and Educational Expansion on Non-religious Volunteering in the Netherlands, 1988 and 2006

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