Margaret E Keck

Margaret E Keck
Johns Hopkins University | JHU · Department of Political Science

PhD

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Carefully selected and first translated into Polish excerpts from academic works, which shaped the international relations science. The anthology reflects the plurality of theoretical, normative and methodological approaches, characteristic of modern international relations science.
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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: Experiment...
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Este artigo propoe um marco conceitual para o estudo da gestao de recursos hidricos, no contexto de reforma institucional. Desde o inicio dos anos 1990, a governanca descentralizada e participativa da agua vem sendo institucionalizada no Brasil por meio da criacao de Comites de Bacia Hidrografica. Os Comites incluem governos, usuarios de agua (priv...
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Este trabalho avalia o efeito democratizante da governança participativa na gestão das águas, a partir de uma pesquisa junto a 626 membros de 14 comitês e 4 consórcios de bacias hidrográficas. A noção de democracia é examinada segundo três noções: a) as arenas participativas devem promover a inclusão e combater a dominação das elites; b) a particip...
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Based on a survey of 626 committee and consortium members in 18 river basins, this study evaluates the democratizing effect of stakeholder governance in water resources management in Brazil. The term democracy is examined according to three ideas: a) participatory arenas should promote political inclusion and combat elite domination; b) participati...
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Studies of participatory governance generally examine the input (deliberation, participation) and/or output (accountability) side of policy processes. Often neglected is the throughput: Does the state have the political and technical capacity to implement the decisions that deliberative bodies make? In this study of Brazilian river-basin committees...
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Grande parte da literatura vê os conselhos gestores, que se difundem no Brasil aos milhares, como arenas deliberativas cujo objetivo é expandir a participação direta dos cidadãos nas decisões públicas. Mas o modelo organizacional dos conselhos não se encaixa no conceito tradicional de democracia participativa por dois motivos. Primeiro, os particip...
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Grande parte da literatura considera os conselhos gestores, que se difundiram em aos milhares, no Brasil, como arenas deliberativas cujo objetivo é expandir a participação direta dos cidadãos nas decisões públicas. Entretanto o modelo organizacional dos conselhos não corresponde ao conceito tradicional de democracia participativa por dois motivos:...
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A great part of the literature considers the managing councils, that have become thousands, in Brazil, as deliberative arenas which objective is to expand the citizens' direct participation in public decisions. However, the organizational model of the managing councils do not correspond to the traditional concept of participative democracy for two...
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Brazil is a country with substantial biodiversity, despite well-documented failures of environmental management. Its creative approaches to preserving biodiversity are less well known and will be covered in this chapter. These include the concepts of extractive reserves and multi-scaled environmental protection networks. International actors have o...
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Over the last two decades, numerous international conferences and organizations have espoused managing water as an economic good, involving participatory forums in systems of decentralized management at the river-basin level. In the 1990s, Brazil adopted such a model. More than a simple transfer of power from the national to the local level or from...
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Transnational networks of activists play an increasingly important role in international and regional politics, and have contributed to changing policies of multilateral organizations and states. Transnational advocacy networks represent a particular type of transnational activism, in which principles and values play an important role in motivating...
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This chapter presents a brief historical-institutional analysis of where water resource and sanitation issues fit in the development of the São Paulo metropolitan area. It then explains some of the guiding ideas about development, technical expertise, and participation that helped define the relationships among actors even when political arenas for...
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Obra que reconstruye el origen y evolución de las actuales redes transnacionales que, con la utilización de las nuevas tecnologías informativas como recurso organizador y aglutinador, han logrado constituirse en movimientos más o menos presionadores en la defensa de los derechos humanos, de la protección ambiental y de una mayor equidad de género,...
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Reports on the labor movement, including the July general strike, the formation of a central labor organization, the divisions within the movement, and the prospects for an autonomous and activist labor force.-from Journal summary
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Traducción de: Activits Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics Obra que reconstruye el origen y evolución de las actuales redes transnacionales que, con la utilización de las nuevas tecnologías informativas como recurso organizador y aglutinador, han logrado constituirse en movimientos más o menos presionadores en la defensa de...
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1986. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 507-534). Photocopy. s
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Typescript (photocopy). Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1986. Bibliography: leaves 507-534. Microfilm. "86-23,549."

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