their extension and co-ordination. It is understood that some extension of the scope of the National Health insurance Act is contemplated, and that Hospital and Pecialist Services may be included in the sphere of ?peration of the Act. The Voluntary Hospitals in Glasgow and the West Scotland submitted a Memorandum and gave ^idence before the Committee. By the courtesy of rRobert F. Barclay this ...

Drawing upon cases studies from Southeast Asia, especially Singapore and Malaysia, this article addresses the following questions pertaining to rise of China its impact Chinese voluntary associations (CVAs) in region over past two decades. By employing theoretical insights positionality, nudging de‐territorialisation by focusing on various strategies pursued respectively CVAs state, we conclude...

Purpose – According to Putnam, civic engagement fosters a cooperative structure and generalized trust. This leads to accumulation of social capital, in the form of inclusive, cooperative networks that are economically productive. The aim of this paper is to evaluate critically this thesis. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing upon data from rural Denmark, this paper double tests Putnam’s somew...

The main focus of the presented paper is to investigate whether the concept of bonding and bridging social capital can be reasonably specified by categorizing voluntary associations according to their constitutive goods, i.e. purposes, and whether this conceptualization will also hold for empirical analysis in the realm of political participation. The empirical findings both for East and West G...

BACKGROUND Impairments in inhibitory function have been found in studies of cognition in schizophrenia. These have been linked to a failure to adequately maintain the task demands in working memory. As response inhibition is known to occur in both voluntary and involuntary processes, an important question is whether both aspects of response inhibition are specifically impaired in people with sc...

This article aims to analyse and assess legal regulations concerning associations as a feature of civil society. In this context, reference is made the essence It should be emphasised that such society constitutes foundation democratic state under rule law. The presents right freedom associate in associations. According provisions Polish Constitution, Republic Poland ensures establish operate t...

The aim of the current study is to investigate which major life events are associated with transitions into and out volunteering over course and, especially, why these associations exist. Social Production Function theory used derive hypotheses, tested using longitudinal data (adult subsample) from Lifelines. Associations between (a) volunteer take-up, nonvolunteer sample ( N = 59,773) (b) cess...

By focusing on membership in voluntary associations in general, the question of whether correlates of affiliation vary by organizational type tends to have been neglected. This is a significant omission from the standpoint of describing the characteristics of “joiners.” Additionally, most of what we know about the reasons for belonging has been inferred from observations of who joins. In this s...

According to ideomotor theory, action-effect associations are crucial for voluntary action control. Recently, a number of studies started to investigate the conditions that mediate the acquisition and application of action-effect associations by comparing actions carried out in response to exogenous stimuli (stimulus-based) with actions selected endogenously (intention-based). There is evidence...