The state of access success and failure of democracies to create equal opportunities
by
 
Jong, Jorrit de.

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

Author
Jong, Jorrit de.

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

Physical Description
xii, 298 p. : ill.

Series
Innovative governance in the 21st century
 
Innovative governance in the 21st century.

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.

Abstract
"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.

Subject Term
Equality.
 
Democracy.
 
Economic history.
 
Social justice.

Genre
Electronic books.

Added Author
Jong, Jorrit de.
 
Rizvi, Gowher.

Added Corporate Author
ProQuest (Firm)

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JC575 .S75 2008959380-1001Ebook CentralEbook Central