The state of access
Subtitle: success and failure of democracies to create equal opportunities
By: Jorrit de Jong, Gowher Rizvi, editors.
Contributors: Jong, Jorrit de.; Rizvi, Gowher.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780815775010
Subjects: Equality; Democracy; Economic history; Social justice
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Access and the state; title: The castle and the village: on the many faces of limited access / Gowher Rizvi and Jorrit de Jong; title: Access to political decision-making; title: Toward participatory inclusion: a gender analysis of community; title: Forestry in South Asia / Bina Agarwal; title: Access to government in Eastern Europe: environmental policymaking in hungary / Susan Rose-Ackerman; title: Access to the economy; title: Economic entitlements: facilitating immigrant entrepreneurship / Jorrit de Jong and Peter Kasbergen; title: Appropriate fit: service delivery beyond bureaucracy / Guy Stuart; title: Access to public services; title: Revenues and access to public benefits / Michael Lipsky; title: Non-take-up: a framework for analysis and action / Arre Zuurmond; title: Providing services to the marginalized: anatomy of an access paradox / Albert-Jan Kruiter and Jorrit de Jong; title: Access to accountable government; title: Calling the government: citizen relation management in Miami-Dade County / Alexander Schellong; title: Demanding to be served: holding governments to account for improved access /  Anwar Shah; title: Access to justice; title: Equal justice under law: narrowing the gap between principle and practice / Deborah Rhode; title: Legal empowerment of the poor / Maaike de Langen and Maurits Barendrecht; title: The access agenda; title: Improving access: a dynamic process / Gowher Rizvi and Jorrit de Jong; title: Contributors; title: Index.