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The Current State of Volunteering in Turkey

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Perspectives on Volunteering

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Turkey has low levels of volunteering. This chapter gives an overview of the current state of volunteering in Turkey by investigating both structural and individual-level factors causing people not to volunteer. The historical development of the relationship between civil society organizations and the state is an important structural factor that causes low levels of volunteering. The historically centralizing, controlling, and restricting attitude of the Turkish state toward civil society organizations has discouraged people from volunteering. By using youth volunteering as a case, this chapter also reveals that individual-level factors, such as education, income, and gender, play an important role in people’s volunteering and nonvolunteering behavior in Turkey.

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  1. Political Science and Public Administration, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Sema Akboga

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  1. CIESC School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus, Mexico

    Jacqueline Butcher

  2. School for Public Service, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Christopher J. Einolf

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Akboga, S. (2017). The Current State of Volunteering in Turkey. In: Butcher, J., Einolf, C. (eds) Perspectives on Volunteering. Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39899-0_13

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