... is considered as the largest Islamic country in the world. Therefore, this study attempts to analyze and demonstrate the dynamics of relationships between actors, religion, and state in the process and strategy of religious regulation. This study was carried out using a single methodological approach...

.... The authors analysed respondents’ opinions towards financial support, practical help and care for elderly people. Finland State Elderly care Public opinions Self-interests First, the authors compared the opinions of older and younger Finns but did not find that older adults were more...

...Jason L. Powell and Sheying Chen; Jamie Halsall; Ian Cook; Paresh Wankhade Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of volunteerism in three different case countries, namely, that of USA, UK and China while highlighting the role of the state, society and social capital...

... in different regions of Asia. The purpose of this special issue is to examine complicated boundary shift in care provision and financing between the state, market, community and family in East, Southeast and South Asia and to explore the implications of these changes in care policies and practices for social...

...Yanxia Zhang; Wei‐Jun. Jean Yeung; Shirley Hsiao‐Li Sun Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate in the context of the persistent low fertility that contributes to an ageing society, what might be the shifting roles of state and family in caring for children? Design/methodology...

...Yanxia Zhang; Wei‐Jun. Jean Yeung; Yanxia Zhang; Mavis Maclean Purpose The economic reforms which turned the centrally planned economy to a market economy have profoundly changed the tripartite relationship between the state, work unit, and citizen in urban China and brought significant changes...

... Finally, instead of assuming religion as either a source of conflict or a source of social order, dependent on the nature of a given religious group, this paper shows the additional complexity and variation in social order that is dependent on the relationship between religion and state and the social...

... Union. Unlike the situation in the Soviet Union, the informal does not emerge from and exist in relation to formal political and economic structures. The state itself is experienced in personalised terms, as a “Mafia”, and the informal is all that there is. Originality/value This article provides...