The state of access  success and failure of democracies to create equal opportunities /  [electronic resource] : 
Jorrit de Jong, Gowher Rizvi, editors. 
 - [Cambridge, MA] :  Washington, D.C. :  Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University ;  Brookings Institution Press,  c2008. 
 - xii, 298 p. :  ill. 
 - Innovative governance in the 21st century .
 - Innovative governance in the 21st century. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Equality.<br/>Democracy.<br/>Economic history.<br/>Social justice.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC575  / .S75 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.01/1