[Socrates] Wednesday: Changing Water Governance in Brazil (Year of Brazil Speaker Series)

[Jorge A Alves]

Dear colleagues,

We are having a great talk this Wednesday during free hour that is of great interest to you and your students. Please come, and announce it to your students, if you teach before Wednesday.

Thanks,

Jorge

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The Year of Brazil Speaker Series presents:

New Institutions Don’t Make Themselves: The Craftwork of Changing Water Governance in Brazil
Margaret E. Keck, Johns Hopkins University
April 9 @ 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm (Free hour)
Kiely 264

http://brazil.qc.cuny.edu/event/new-institutions-dont-make-themselves/

Institutions created by laws take time and effort to acquire practical authority—a combination of problem-solving capabilities as well as recognition from other social actors. Many of them never get off the ground. Renowned political scientist Margaret E. Keck will discuss the process of policy of experimentation and new forms of participatory governance—which included state officials, academics and activists—that transformed the management of Brazil’s freshwater sector.

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Jorge Antonio Alves
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Queens College, City University of New York
65-30 Kissena Blvd. | Queens, NY 11367-1597
Tel: (718) 997-5414 | Fax: (718) 997-5492
http://qcpages.qc.edu/Political_Science/alves.html