Książka Practical Authority Rebecca Neaera Abers

Practical Authority

Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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592.26
New institutions don't come into being by themselves: They have to be organized. On the basis of re...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2013
strony
288
EAN
9780199985265
ISBN
019998526X
Enbook ID
04537174
Waga
596
Wymiary
162 x 237 x 22

Pełny opis

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.

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