Practical authority : agency and institutional change in Brazilian water politics / Rebecca Neaera Abers, Margaret E. Keck.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Abers, Rebecca.

Contributor:

• Keck, Margaret E.
• UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
• Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Water-supply--Brazil--Management.
• Water-supply--Political aspects--Brazil.
• Water resources development--Political aspects--Brazil.
• Hydrology--Brazil.
• Fresh water--Brazil.
• Fresh water.
• Hydrology.
• Water resources development--Political aspects.
• Water resources development.
• Water-supply--Political aspects.
• Water-supply.
• Management.
• Brazil--Politics and government--1985-2002.
• Brazil.
• Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

How do institutional arrangements established by law become operational in practice? It takes work for them to develop problem-solving capabilities and win recognition from others-what the authors call "practical authority." Drawing from a decade-long, multi-site study of efforts to transform freshwater management in Brail, the authors show how an assortment of protagonists-from state officials to university professors to activists-struggled to breathe life into new institutional designs. Their account weaves together three decades of national and state law-making with experimentation in establishing new kinds of participatory water management organizations. Exploring this process in sixteen river basins, the authors examine why some of those organizations adapted creatively to challenges while others never got off the ground. To approach this complex, volatile, and non-linear process of transformation, the book develops a framework for investigating the actions and practices of institution-building. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

• Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lachs-Adler Family Endowed Fund for Collection Development.

ISBN:

• 0199985286
• 9780199985289

Publisher Number:

99961420559

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

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