The State of Access: Success and Failure of Democracies to Create Equal Opportunities (Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century") - Softcover

 
9780815775010: The State of Access: Success and Failure of Democracies to Create Equal Opportunities (Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century")
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0815775016 ISBN 13: 9780815775010
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Gowher Rizvi is director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he is also a lecturer in public policy.Jorrit de Jong is a research fellow at the Ash Institute and former director of the Centre for Government Studies at Leiden University.

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Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0815775016
ISBN 13 
9780815775010
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
311
Editor
Jong Jorrit De