The Volunteer’s Dilemma is a provision point version of the classic public goods game where, once the level is obtained, all n players enjoy the benefit of the public good. Each member faces a binary set of options including a costly decision to volunteer and a costless no volunteer choice. The volunteer’s dilemma is a unique version in that only one volunteer is needed to supply the public goo...

Abstract Rising socio-economic inequality in many countries raises the question of how it affects individuals’ civic engagement forms charitable giving, volunteering and non-profit membership. Though a growing body multidisciplinary literature has started to address this issue, empirical results vary considerably explanations about what underlies relationship remain fragmentary. We thus conduct...

This article presents the formalisation of the weak and strong permission in deontic logic based on the logic of enactment. A permission that follows from the absence of a prohibition, we call a weak permission; this permission is not enacted. A strong permission is always enacted (implicitly or explicitly), and implies a giving choice. The distinction between these two types of permission is a...

The nature of the relationship between time people spend on paid work and volunteering remains debated in social sciences. Time constraint theory suggests a negative because can allocate only as much to their responsibilities permit. However, integration more complex inverse U-shaped not limits people’s free but also plays key role integration. Departing from these competing theories, this stud...

In western countries, one of the challenges facing ageing populations is an absence of social roles. One response to this is to volunteer, with evidence suggesting that this assigns meaning to the lives of older people and enhances health and well-being. This holds potential significance for older people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and particularly those from Asian culture...

The theoretical inspiration for this paper has come from anthropological conceptualizations of personal narrative and the relationship between the notions of travel, culture, and reciprocity. I consider this in relation to the construction of cultural meaning by volunteers through the medium of the Internet. The present analysis primarily focuses on how volunteers attempt to create coherent nar...