The state of access success and failure of democracies to create equal opportunities /

"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.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Jong, Jorrit de, Rizvi, Gowher
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Cambridge, MA] : Washington, D.C. : Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University ; Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
Series:Innovative governance in the 21st century.
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Table of 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.