03300nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10338425 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 080828s2008 maua sb 001 0 eng 2008038065 9780815775010 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0815775016 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)567901340 JC575 .S75 2008eb 320.01/1 22 The state of access [electronic resource] : success and failure of democracies to create equal opportunities / Jorrit de Jong, Gowher Rizvi, editors. [Cambridge, MA] : Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008. xii, 298 p. : ill. Innovative governance in the 21st century Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. "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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Equality. Democracy. Economic history. Social justice. Electronic books. local Jong, Jorrit de. Rizvi, Gowher. ebrary, Inc. Innovative governance in the 21st century. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10338425 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 47696 47696