| 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. |
| Abstract |
"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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013003846 |
| ISBN | 9780199985265 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780199985272 (paperback) |
