Practical authority : agency and institutional change in Brazilian water politics
Abers, RebeccaAuthor
Keck, Margaret EContributor
This book looks at what actors in complex policy environments actually do to get new institutions off the ground. The story told 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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book looks at what actors in complex policy environments actually do to get new institutions off the ground. The story told 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.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 26, 2013).
Water-supply
Water-supply
Water resources development
Hydrology
Fresh water
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Engineering & Applied Sciences
Environmental Engineering