Ben Ross Schneider wrote that this "definitive study" was one of the first "solid analyses in English of the Workers' party".
In a review in Foreign Affairs, Richard Feinberg wrote that the book demonstrates how networks of activists affect policy formation.
[6] 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.
[7] That year, she received the Elinor Ostrom STEP Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association.
[8] Keck's work has been featured in Foreign Affairs[5] and the North American Congress on Latin America,[9] and cited in outlets like The Washington Post,[10] The Chronicle of Higher Education,[11] and GreenBiz.