The state of access : success and failure of democracies to create equal opportunities / Jorrit de Jong, Gowher Rizvi, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jong, Jorrit de.

Rizvi, Gowher.

Series:

Innovative governance in the 21st century.

Innovative governance in the 21st century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality.

Democracy.

Economic history.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Cambridge, MA] : Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A comparative, cross-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which democratic institutions fail or succeed to create the equal opportunities that they have promised to deliver to the people they serve"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Access and the state

The castle and the village: the many faces of limited access / Jorrit de Jong and Gowher Rizvi

Access to political decisionmaking

Toward participatory inclusion: a gender analysis of community forestry in South Asia / Bina Agarwal

Access to government in Eastern Europe: environmental policymaking in Hungary / Susan Rose-Ackerman

Access to the economy

Economic entitlements: facilitating immigrant entrepreneurship / Jorrit de Jong and Peter Kasbergen

Appropriate fit: service delivery beyond bureaucracy / Guy Stuart

Access to public services

Revenues and access to public benefits / Michael Lipsky

Bureaucratic bias and access to public services: the fight against non-take-up / Arre Zuurmond

Providing services to the marginalized: anatomy of an access paradox / Albert Jan Kruiter and Jorrit de Jong

Access to accountable government

Calling 311: citizen relationship management in Miami-Dade County / Alexander Schellong

Demanding to be served: holding governments to account for improved access / Anwar Shah

Access to justice

Access to justice in the United States: narrowing the gap between principle and practice / Deborah L. Rhode

Legal empowerment of the poor: innovating access to justice / Maaike de Langen and Maurits Barendrecht

The access agenda

The dynamics of access: understanding "the mismatch" / Jorrit de Jong and Gowher Rizvi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612131233

9781282131231

1282131230

9780815701767

0815701764

OCLC:

567901340