Linkages within Institutional Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Water Institutions

Taking water institutions as an illustrative context, this paper attempts a quantitative analysis of the structural and functional linkages within institutional structure and indicates their performance implications and strategic importance for promoting institutional reforms. Against an overview of...

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Main Authors:	Saleth, R. Maria, Dinar, Ariel
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Institutions: Design, Formation, and Operations D020 Gas Utilities Pipelines Water Utilities L950 Land Ownership and Tenure Land Reform Land Use Irrigation Agriculture and Environment Q150 Renewable Resources and Conservation: Water Q250
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4908

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spelling	okr-10986-49082021-04-23T14:02:20Z Linkages within Institutional Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Water Institutions Saleth, R. Maria Dinar, Ariel Institutions: Design, Formation, and Operations D020 Gas Utilities Pipelines Water Utilities L950 Land Ownership and Tenure Land Reform Land Use Irrigation Agriculture and Environment Q150 Renewable Resources and Conservation: Water Q250 Taking water institutions as an illustrative context, this paper attempts a quantitative analysis of the structural and functional linkages within institutional structure and indicates their performance implications and strategic importance for promoting institutional reforms. Against an overview of existing empirical works on institutions in general and water institutions in particular, the paper develops an analytical framework for specifying alternative models of institution-performance interaction within the water sector under different assumptions concerning institutional linkages and their structural properties. These models are, then, empirically estimated using the perception-based information provided by an international panel of 127 water experts from 43 countries and regions around the world. Based on the model results, the paper offers quantitative evidences for institutional linkages and their performance implications, and concludes by indicating their policy roles, especially in developing some reform design and implementation principles useful to overcome the technical and political economy constraints for institutional reforms. 2012-03-30T07:30:20Z 2012-03-30T07:30:20Z 2008 Journal Article Journal of Institutional Economics 17441374 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4908 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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topic	Institutions: Design, Formation, and Operations D020 Gas Utilities Pipelines Water Utilities L950 Land Ownership and Tenure Land Reform Land Use Irrigation Agriculture and Environment Q150 Renewable Resources and Conservation: Water Q250
spellingShingle	Institutions: Design, Formation, and Operations D020 Gas Utilities Pipelines Water Utilities L950 Land Ownership and Tenure Land Reform Land Use Irrigation Agriculture and Environment Q150 Renewable Resources and Conservation: Water Q250 Saleth, R. Maria Dinar, Ariel Linkages within Institutional Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Water Institutions
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description	Taking water institutions as an illustrative context, this paper attempts a quantitative analysis of the structural and functional linkages within institutional structure and indicates their performance implications and strategic importance for promoting institutional reforms. Against an overview of existing empirical works on institutions in general and water institutions in particular, the paper develops an analytical framework for specifying alternative models of institution-performance interaction within the water sector under different assumptions concerning institutional linkages and their structural properties. These models are, then, empirically estimated using the perception-based information provided by an international panel of 127 water experts from 43 countries and regions around the world. Based on the model results, the paper offers quantitative evidences for institutional linkages and their performance implications, and concludes by indicating their policy roles, especially in developing some reform design and implementation principles useful to overcome the technical and political economy constraints for institutional reforms.
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author	Saleth, R. Maria Dinar, Ariel
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title	Linkages within Institutional Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Water Institutions
title_short	Linkages within Institutional Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Water Institutions
title_full	Linkages within Institutional Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Water Institutions
title_fullStr	Linkages within Institutional Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Water Institutions
title_full_unstemmed	Linkages within Institutional Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Water Institutions
title_sort	linkages within institutional structure: an empirical analysis of water institutions
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Linkages within Institutional Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Water Institutions

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