Locking Down Civil Society
The Impact of Covid-19
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12248786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lærke Høgenhaven (0000-0001-8408-9134, corresponding author), Hans-Peter Y Qvist (0000-0001-6231-3123), Hjalmar Bang Carlsen (0000-0002-2638-0932), Lars Skov Henriksen (0000-0001-9640-2773), Jonas Toubøl (0000-0002-4701-6793) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1044-1056 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Voluntas Revista Internacional de Filosofia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2179-3786 • E-ISSN: 1573-7888 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11266-025-00780-w |
| OpenAlex | W4416333227 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
This paper examines patterns of volunteering during COVID-19 in different areas of civil society and demographic groups in Denmark. The aim is to understand how differences in the areas of civil society's political resources and organizational settings, and different barriers to volunteering of demographic groups, relate to variation in the levels of volunteering in periods of the pandemic with different lockdown measures. Using two cross-sectional surveys from spring 2020 ( n = 3,497), and spring 2021 ( n = 1,692), and a four-round panel dataset ( n = 1,340), we measure changes in volunteer participation during the first year of the pandemic. We find significant drops in volunteering within most areas. While the level of lockdown correlates strongly with changes in volunteering, differences between areas of civil society point to the importance of variations in political resources and organizational settings for explaining which areas recovered fastest in the re-opening of society. Additionally, declines in volunteering did not differ significantly across demographic groups
Civil society · Pandemic · Politics · Position (finance · Spring (device · Variation (astronomy · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |