0 used to describe something that does not belong to or is not controlled by a government: --
In the UK, gas and electricity are competitive, non-state industries.
An extremely important dimension is the relationship between non-state homes and the government.
There are other adverse effects, too, of this continuing reliance on non-state policing.
Selected non-state actors are also represented, among them think tanks, business organisations, multinational corporations and the media.
This again illustrates the important advantages gained by those workers whose employers contribute to their non-state provision.
A final cause for concern is the potential for some aspects of non-state policing to provoke a still wider use of violence.
In a nutshell, the state will always react as state to the challenges of globalisation, including the challenge from non-state communities and their laws.
The ubiquity of contemporary non-state policing raises important normative and policy issues about what attitude democracies should take to it.
The final part of the article presents empirical findings from a study of non-state welfare homes for older people conducted by the authors.
