Research Catalog

Title

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

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.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jong, Jorrit de
• Rizvi, Gowher.
• Stuart, Guy.
• Brookings Institution.

Description

xii, 298 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Innovative governance in the 21st century

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• HKS Faculty
• MLD, Management, Leadership, and Decision Sciences
• Equality
• Democracy
• Economic history
• Social justice

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Access and the state -- The castle and the village: on the many faces of limited access / Gowher Rizvi and Jorrit de Jong -- Access to political decision-making -- 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 -- Non-take-up: a framework for analysis and action / Arre Zuurmond -- Providing services to the marginalized: anatomy of an access paradox / Albert-Jan Kruiter and Jorrit de Jong -- Access to accountable government -- Calling the government: citizen relation management in Miami-Dade County / Alexander Schellong -- Demanding to be served: holding governments to account for improved access / Anwar Shah -- Access to justice -- Equal justice under law: narrowing the gap between principle and practice / Deborah Rhode -- Legal empowerment of the poor / Maaike de Langen and Maurits Barendrecht -- The access agenda -- Improving access: a dynamic process / Gowher Rizvi and Jorrit de Jong.

ISBN

9780815775010 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008038065

OCLC

• 231581681
• SCSB-10217676

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library