In this Book
- The State of Access: Success and Failure of Democracies to Create Equal Opportunities
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Brookings Institution Press
- Series: Brookings / Ash Institute Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century"
summary
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 reasonsexclusionary 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.
Table of Contents
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- Part I. Access and the State
- pp. 1-2
- Part III. Access to the Economy
- pp. 93-94
- Part IV. Access to Public Services
- pp. 135-136
- 6. Revenues and Access to Public Benefits
- pp. 137-147
- Part V. Access to Accountable Government
- pp. 189-190
- Part VI. Access to Justice
- pp. 227-228
- Part VII. The Access Agenda
- pp. 273-274
- Contributors
- pp. 287-288
Additional Information
ISBN
9780815701767
Related ISBN(s)
9780815775010
MARC Record
OCLC
567901340
Pages
298
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No