The academic volume ‘The State of Access: Success and Failure of Democracies to Create Equal Opportunities’ will be available in January 2009. A preview of the book cover can be found here.
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.