Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
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.
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.
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