Margaret Keck (born January 12, 1949) is an American

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and Brazilianist, currently an Academy Professor and professor emeritus of political science at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

. Keck studies the Politics of Brazil,

environmental politics Environmental politics designate both the politics about the environment (see also environmental policy) and an academic field of study focused on three core components:Carter, Neil. 2007. ''The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Polic ...

, international activist movements and

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Career

Keck graduated from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

with a PhD in 1986. She began doing research in Brazil in 1982. Keck has written four books. Her first book, ''The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil'', was published in 1992. Ben Ross Schneider wrote that this "definitive study" was one of the first "solid analyses in English of the Workers' party". In 1998, she and

Kathryn Sikkink Kathryn Sikkink (born 1955) is an author, human rights academic, and scholar of international relations working primarily through the theoretical strain of constructivism. She is currently at professor at Harvard Kennedy School. Academic career Ka ...

published ''Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy in International Politics'', which studied the role of advocacy networks that transcend national politics and have effects in multiple countries. The book won the

Grawemeyer Award The Grawemeyer Awards () are five awards given annually by the University of Louisville. The prizes are presented to individuals in the fields of education, ideas improving world order, music composition, religion, and psychology. The religion awa ...

for Ideas Improving World Order in 1999, making Keck and Sikkink the first women ever to win that award. Her 2007 book, ''Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society'', was co-authored with Kathryn Hochstetler. The book reviews the evolution of environmental politics and activism in Brazil. In a review in Foreign Affairs, Richard Feinberg wrote that the book demonstrates how networks of activists affect policy formation. The book received the 2009 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize for the best book on environmental politics and policy from the Science, Technology & Environmental Politics section of the American Political Science Association. Her most recent book, ''Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics'', was co-authored with Rebecca Neaera Abers and published in 2013. Keck retired from Johns Hopkins University in 2016. That year, she received the

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STEP Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association. In 2019, a citation analysis by the political scientists Hannah June Kim and Bernard Grofman listed Keck as the 15th most cited active emeritus political scientist at an American university. Keck's work has been featured in '' Foreign Affairs'' and the North American Congress on Latin America, and cited in outlets like ''

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'', ''

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'', and GreenBiz.

Selected works

*''The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil'' (1992) *''Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy in International Politics''. With Kathryn Sikkink (1998) *"Water, Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink: Land Use and Water Policy in São Paulo," in ''Livable Cities'', Peter Evans ed. (2000)

Selected awards

*Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, with Kathryn Sikkink, 1999 *Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, American Political Science Association, 2009 *Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award, American Political Science Association

References

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