Value Congruence within Voluntary Associations. A social psychological extension of social capital theory. Social capital theory assumes that the interaction within voluntary associations leads to the development of generalised trust, norms of reciprocity and the strengthening of networks of civic engagement. Social psychological research however does not offer any evidence for the introduction...

The politics of hope of this article is rooted in the local leadership of low income, repressed communities. One central element of the politics of hope is redemptive organizations. These organizations are a variant of voluntary associations that are distinguished by their explicitly political purpose of social transformation and concomitant requirement of personal sacrifice and transformation....

This commentary introduces the term ‘dual facing’ to describe way that Chinese voluntary associations orientate themselves as collectives situated between ancestral land (China) and their countries of settlement. The uses examples in Singapore Myanmar reflect on China's longstanding presence expanding reach Southeast Asia, including through its diaspora engagement with abroad. It argues such ar...

We model the dynamics of the two-mode network among directors and boards of voluntary associations, using a stochastic actorbased model, SIENA [12], including the structural effects proposed in [6], and considering the political orientation of associations as a covariate. Using data from [14], we compare the evolution of interlocks among Turkish associations in two European capitals, and explai...