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Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics

Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics

Abers, Rebecca Neaera
Keck, Margaret E.

Paperback

General SociologySocial MovementsUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0199985278
ISBN13: 9780199985272
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 9 2013
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

Drawing from a decade-long, multi-site study of efforts to transform freshwater management in Brazil, the authors show how an assortment of protagonists-from state officials to university professors to activists-struggled to breathe life into new institutional designs. Their account weaves together three decades of national and state law-making with experimentation in establishing new kinds of participatory water management organizations. Exploring this process in sixteen river basins, the authors examine why some of those organizations adapted creatively to challenges while others never got off the ground. To approach this complex, volatile, and non-linear process of transformation, the book develops a framework for investigating the actions and practices of institution-building.

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