Civic service worldwide: impacts and inquiry

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Foreword: Civic Service Analysis Has Come of Age, Amitai Etzioni Preface and Acknowledgements Part I. Context 1. Building Knowledge on Civic Service Worldwide, Amanda Moore McBride and Michael Sherraden, with Margaret Lombe and Fengyan Tang 2. From Military Service to Civic Service: The Evolution of National Youth Service, Donald J. Eberly and Reuven Gal Part II. National Service: Policy, Potential, and Effects 3. The Effects of National Service in Africa, with a Focus on Nigeria, Ebenezer Obadare 4. Toward Universal National Youth Service in Israel: Possible Social Capital Effects, Nicole Fleischer and Reuven Gal 5. The Effects of National Service in the United States: A Research Synthesis, James Perry and Ann Marie Thomson Part III. Civic Service Across the Life Course 6. Civic Service Among Youth in Chile, Denmark, England, and the United States: A Psychological Perspective, Judith Torney-Purta, Jo-Ann Amadeo, and Wendy Klandl Richardson 7. The Potential Effects of Service-learning and Community Service in Educational Settings in Latin America, Maria Nieves Tapia 8. Youth Service and Elder Service in Comparative Perspective, Nancy Morrow-Howell and Fengyan Tang Part IV. Civic Service Across Borders 9. International Civic Service: A Step Toward Cooperation in a Global World, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden 10. Social Psychological Theory and the Potential for Intergroup and Ethnonational Cooperation in Civic Service Programs, Ronald Pitner Part V. Impacts and Inquiry 11. Civic Service Across Nations and Cultures: The Range of Effects and Ways to Study Them, Justin Davis Smith and Angela Ellis 12. Directions in Civic Service Scholarship: An Institutional Perspective, Amanda Moore McBride and Michael Sherraden, with Natasha Menon About the Editors and Contributors * Index.