Issues in Water Rights, Institutional Design and Pricing that Need Resolution (in India)

The Political Economy of Water Markets

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199335084.013.24 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Dustin Garrick ◽

Jesper Svensson

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Institutional Design ◽

Water Rights ◽

Water Markets ◽

The Political ◽

The Past ◽

The Us ◽

Community Roles ◽

Governance Institutions ◽

And Performance

This chapter examines the political economy of water markets. It traces key debates about water markets, and examines how and why these debates have evolved since the 1970s. Experiments with water markets over the past 40 years have generated lessons about the politics, institutional design and performance of reforms to water rights and river basin governance institutions. Drawing on contrasting experiences with water markets in Australia, the US and China, the analysis demonstrates that strong government and community roles are necessary for water markets to respond effectively and equitably to water scarcity.

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Institutional design considerations for water rights development in China

10.2499/0896297497.ch11 ◽

2005 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bin Liu

Keyword(s):

Institutional Design ◽

Water Rights ◽

Design Considerations

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Water rights reform: lessons for institutional design

10.2499/0896297497 ◽

2005 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Keyword(s):

Institutional Design ◽

Water Rights

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Reform of water institutions: review of evidences and international experiences

Water Policy ◽

10.2166/wp.2010.011 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 12 (S1) ◽

pp. 8-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Eduardo Araral

Keyword(s):

Institutional Design ◽

Irrigation Management ◽

Water Rights ◽

Institutional Reform ◽

Fiscal Sustainability ◽

Urban Water ◽

Urban Water Supply ◽

Theoretical Rationale ◽

Private Sector Participation ◽

Water Institutions

This paper provides an overview of the reform of water institutions in developing countries in the last three decades focusing on the ‘what, why and how’ of institutional reform, and outlines their implications for policy and research. The review covers four areas: (1) water rights and river basin institutions; (2) decentralized irrigation management; (3) private sector participation in urban water supply; and (4) regulation of water infrastructure. The review suggests that (a) the theoretical rationale for reforms is mostly grounded on arguments for efficiency, effectiveness and fiscal sustainability with little considerations for equity; (b) models of institutional design varies from incremental to comprehensive; and (c) implementation experiences among countries are mixed, given the conditional nature of institutional reform; and (d) changes in elite perception holds the key to reform.

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Book ReviewWater Rights Reform: Lessons for Institutional DesignBy Bryan Randolph Bruns, Claudia Ringler and Ruth Meinzen-Dick (Editors) (2005)

Discovery and Innovation ◽

10.4314/dai.v18i1.15727 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Samuel O Akatch

Keyword(s):

Institutional Design ◽

Water Rights

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From meditation to action – a research agenda for studying informal global rule-making: remarks on ‘Cosmopolitanism, publicity, and the emergence of a “global administrative law”’

International Theory ◽

10.1017/s1752971920000639 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Oliver Westerwinter

Keyword(s):

Global Governance ◽

Comparative Research ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Institutional Design ◽

Administrative Law ◽

Democratic Legitimacy ◽

Institutional Architecture ◽

Global Law ◽

Rule Making ◽

Law Making

Abstract Friedrich Kratochwil engages critically with the emergence of a global administrative law and its consequences for the democratic legitimacy of global governance. While he makes important contributions to our understanding of global governance, he does not sufficiently discuss the differences in the institutional design of new forms of global law-making and their consequences for the effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance. I elaborate on these limitations and outline a comparative research agenda on the emergence, design, and effectiveness of the diverse arrangements that constitute the complex institutional architecture of contemporary global governance.

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From Market Studies to Society Analysis

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2005-12-63-81 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 63-81

Author(s):

Ya. Kouzminov ◽

K. Bendoukidze ◽

M. Yudkevich

Keyword(s):

Institutional Theory ◽

Policy Making ◽

Institutional Design ◽

The Real ◽

Economic Agents

The article examines the main concepts of modern institutional theory and the ways its tools and concepts could be applied in the real policy-making. In particular, the authors focus on behavioral assumptions of the theory that allow them to explain the imperfection of economic agents’ behavior as a reason for rules and institutions to emerge. Problems of institutional design are also discussed.

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