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" The state of access : "
Jorrit de Jong, Gowher Rizvi, editors.
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954414
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b708784
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The state of access : : success and failure of democracies to create equal opportunities /\ Jorrit de Jong, Gowher Rizvi, editors.
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[Cambridge, MA] :: Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University ;Washington, D.C. :: Brookings Institution Press,, ©2008.
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Innovative governance in the 21st century.
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1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) :: illustrations
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0815701764
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: 9780815701767
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0815775016
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9780815775010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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"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.
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Democracy.
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Economic history.
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Equality.
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Social justice.
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Democracy.
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Economic history.
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Equality.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Democracy.
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Social justice.
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320.01/1
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JC575.S75 2008eb
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Jong, Jorrit de.
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Rizvi, Gowher.
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