- Additional Authors
- Keck, Margaret E.
- Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 263 pages)
- Summary
- "New institutions don't come into being by themselves: They have to be organized. On the basis of research from a decade-long, multi-site study of efforts to transform freshwater management in Brazil, Practical Authority asks how new institutional arrangements established by law become operational in practice"--
- Uniform Title
- Practical authority (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Practical authority (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 -- Practical Authority, Institution-building, and Entanglement -- Chapter 2 -- Entangled Institutions and Layered Reform Narratives: Governing Water Resources in Historical Context -- Chapter 3 -- Institutional Design in Entangled Settings: How to Make an Unfinished Law -- Chapter 4 --Practicing Laws: Experiments with Institution Building -- Chapter 5 -- Becoming Committees: Diversity, Problems and Processes -- Chapter 6 -- Diversions of Authority: Power, Perseverance and Struggles over the Control of Water Resources -- Chapter 7 -- Building Practical Authority from Outside the State -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Methodological Narrative -- Appendix 2: List of interviews -- References.
- LCCN
- 2013003846
- OCLC
- ssj0000950610
- Author
Abers, Rebecca.
- Title
Practical authority [electronic resource] : agency and institutional change in Brazilian water politics / Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck.
- Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Keck, Margaret E.