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Author Abers, Rebecca.

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

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 263 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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Subject Water-supply -- Brazil -- Management.
Water-supply.
Brazil.
Management.
Water-supply -- Political aspects -- Brazil.
Water-supply -- Political aspects.
Water resources development -- Political aspects -- Brazil.
Water resources development -- Political aspects.
Water resources development.
Hydrology -- Brazil.
Hydrology.
Fresh water -- Brazil.
Fresh water.
Brazil -- Politics and government -- 1985-2002.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1985-2002
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Keck, Margaret E.
Other Form: Print version: Abers, Rebecca. Practical authority. Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013 9780199985265 (DLC) 2013003846 (OCoLC)844789379
ISBN 9780199985289 (electronic book)
0199985286 (electronic book)
9780199985265
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