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Practical authority : agency and institutional change in Brazilian water politics / Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck.
LIBRA TD241.A1 A34 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abers, Rebecca.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water-supply--Brazil--Management.
- Water-supply.
- Water-supply--Political aspects--Brazil.
- Water resources development--Political aspects--Brazil.
- Water resources development.
- Hydrology--Brazil.
- Hydrology.
- Fresh water--Brazil.
- Fresh water.
- Water resources development--Political aspects.
- Water-supply--Political aspects.
- Management.
- Brazil--Politics and government--1985-2002.
- Brazil.
- Politics and government.
- Political science.
- Water-supply--Management.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 263 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199985265
- 019998526X
- 9780199985272
- 0199985278
- OCLC:
- 844789379
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