Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/KVGLww The State of Access Success and Failure of Democracies to Create Equal Opportunities By: Jorrit de Jong Publisher: Brookings Institution Press/Ash Center Print ISBN: 9780815775010, 0815775016 eText ISBN: 9780815701767, 0815701764 Format: PDF Available from $ 23.99 USD SKU 9780815701767 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.
