Practical authority : agency and institutional change in Brazilian water politics

Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck

"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"--

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Year of publication:	[2013]
Authors:	Abers, Rebecca Neaera ; Keck, Margaret Elizabeth
Other Persons:	Abers, Rebecca N. (contributor)
Publisher:	Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press
Subject:	Wasserpolitik \| Water policy \| Wasserversorgung \| Water supply \| Institutioneller Wandel \| Institutional change \| Brasilien \| Brazil
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de] ; Description [gbv.de]

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Extent:	xxi, 263 pages 25 cm
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index 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. 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. Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2013]
ISBN:	0-19-998526-X ; 0-19-998527-8 ; 978-0-19-998526-5 ; 978-0-19-998527-2
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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