Rebecca Neaera Abers, Margaret E Keck

Practical Authority

Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780199985272
• ISBN-10: 0199985278
• Artikelnr.: 38017937

Autorenporträt

RA: Adjunct Professor, Institute of Political Science, University of BrasíliaMK: Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University

Inhaltsangabe

* 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