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Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California John Walton
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This article is published in Pacific Historical Review.The article was published on 1993-02-01. It has received 20 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: State (polity).read more
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Democratic States and Social Movements: Theoretical Arguments and Hypotheses
Edwin Amenta,Michael P. Young +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of state political institutions, democratic processes, bureaucracies, and policies on social mobilization and collective action is discussed. But the authors focus on the U.S. state, comparatively speaking, has discouraged and continues to discourage social mobilization.
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The Virtuous Circle of Facts and Values in the New Western History
TL;DR: The authors examine the work of a group of historians who have foregrounded the relations between facts and values in the writing of historical geography, and explore how attention to the interplay between fact and values might rekindle the utopian dimension of explicitly political historical geographies.
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Bureaucratizing Democracy, Democratizing Bureaucracy
TL;DR: The relationship between how rationality is conceived and how democracy is practiced in the Bureau of Reclamation, a water development agency in the Department of Interior, was analyzed in this article, where the efforts of some inside the agency to institutionalize rational decision-making models, partly in response to new environmental law, expanded the number and range of interest groups that participated in its decisions and incorporated their preferences into their models for evaluating plans.
Knowledge flows and social capital : a network perspective on rural innovation
TL;DR: A submitted manuscript is the version of the article upon submission and before peer-review as discussed by the authors, while a published version is the final layout of the paper including the volume, issue and page numbers.
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The politics of water scarcity in the western states
TL;DR: Water is a scarce and highly prized commodity in the arid Western states as discussed by the authors, and water policy creation is very much a challenge for a number of reasons, such as state prior appropriation laws are not easily reconciled with federal reserve rights and the public trust doctrine.