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Practical authority : agency and institutional change in Brazilian water politics /

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"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 ope...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abers, Rebecca
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Keck, Margaret E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
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  • 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.