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



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Titolo: The state of access [[electronic resource] ] : success and failure of democracies to create equal opportunities / / Jorrit de Jong, Gowher Rizvi, editors Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: [Cambridge, MA], : Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
Disciplina: 320.01/1
Soggetto topico: Equality
Democracy
Economic history
Social justice
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: JongJorrit de  
RizviGowher  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: "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.
Titolo autorizzato: The state of access  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-13123-0
9786612131233
0-8157-0176-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910454045903321
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