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5. The Macro-institutional Determinants of Depoliticization and Resilience in UWSEs

Author : Thomas Bolognesi

Published in: Modernization and Urban Water Governance

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

This chapter explores why the modernization of urban water systems in Europe (UWSEs) brings about the process of their depoliticization. Furthermore, it investigates why modernization implementation goes with a resilient dynamic of water systems. It appears that modernization renders the structure of property rights within the UWSEs more complex, expanding the distribution of associated rights of control. This mechanism is central to the depoliticization process. Institutional arrangements reflecting the organizational principles of modernization emerge more easily when institutional matrices give credibility to impersonal commitments and reflect a preference for flexibility. The diversity of capitalism allows these elements and their dynamics to be observed while explaining the variety of ideal-types of UWSEs.

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Title: The Macro-institutional Determinants of Depoliticization and Resilience in UWSEs
Author: Thomas Bolognesi
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Book: Modernization and Urban Water Governance
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-59254-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-59255-2

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59255-2_5