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Practical authority agency and institutional change in Brazilian water politics

Title
Practical authority [electronic resource] : agency and institutional change in Brazilian water politics / Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck.
Author
Abers, Rebecca.
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]

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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
  • Water-supply > Brazil > Management
  • Water-supply > Political aspects > Brazil
  • Water resources development > Political aspects > Brazil
  • Hydrology > Brazil
  • Fresh water > Brazil
  • Brazil > Politics and government > 1985-2002
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
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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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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Keck, Margaret E.
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