The State of Access : Success and Failure of Democracies to Create Equal Opportunities.
Title:
The State of Access : Success and Failure of Democracies to Create Equal Opportunities.
Author:
de Jong, Jorrit.
ISBN:
9780815701767
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (312 pages)
Series:
Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovati
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- The Castle and the Village: The Many Faces of Limited Access -- Toward a Participatory Inclusion: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South Asia -- Access to Government in Eastern Europe: Environmental Policymaking in Hungary -- Economic Entitlements: Facilitating Immigrant Entrepreneurship -- Appropriate Fit: Service Delivery beyond Bureaucracy -- Revenues and Access to Public Benefits -- Bureaucratic Bias and Access to Public Services: The Fight against Non-Take-Up -- Providing Services to the Marginalized: Anatomy of an Access Paradox -- Calling 311: Citizen Relationship Management in Miami-Dade County -- Demanding to Be Served: Holding Governments to Account for Improved Access -- Access to Justice in the United States: Narrowing the Gap between Principle and Practice -- Legal Empowerment of the Poor: Innovating Access to Justice -- The Dynamics of Access: Understanding "the Mismatch" -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
This book documents a worrisome gap between principles and practice in democratic governance. The State of Access is 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.In theory, rules and regulations may formally guarantee access to democratic processes, public services, and justice. But reality routinely disappoints, for a number of reasons-exclusionary policymaking, insufficient attention to minorities, underfunded institutions, inflexible bureaucracies. The State of Access helps close the gap between the potential and performance in democratic governance.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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