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Practical Authority

Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics

Szerző: Rebecca Neaera Abers, Margaret E. Keck

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Oxford University Press Inc

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

Küldés 10-18 napon belül

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New institutions don't come into being by themselves: They have to be organized. On the basis of re...

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Szerző

Rebecca Neaera Abers, Margaret E. Keck

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2013

oldal

288

EAN

9780199985272

ISBN

0199985278

Enbook ID

04537175

Kiadó

Oxford University Press Inc

Súly

392

Méretek

156 x 234 x 19

Teljes leírás

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. The book explores how this happens by putting both agency and structures in motion. It looks at what actors in complex policy environments actually do to get new institutions off the ground. New configurations of authority in a policy area very often have to be produced relationally, on the ground, in practice. New organizations have to acquire problem-solving capabilities and recognition from others, what the authors call "practical authority." The story told here has a multiplicity of protagonists, many of whom are normally invisible in political studies, such as the state officials and university professors who struggled to move water reform forward. The book explores the interaction between their efforts to influence the design and passage of new legislation and the hard labor of creating the new water management organizations the laws called for. It follows three decades of law making at the national and state level and examines the creation of sixteen river basin committees throughout the country. By bringing together state and society actors around territorially specific problems, these committees were expected to promote a new vision of integrated water management. But none of the ones examined here followed the trajectory their organizers expected. Some adapted creatively to challenges, circumventing roadblocks encountered along the way; others never got off the ground. Rather than explain these differences on the basis of the varying conditions actors faced, the authors propose a focus on the process, and practice, of institution building.