Social movements take shape in relation to the kind of state they face, while over time states are transformed by the movements that they both incorporate and resist. Green States and Social Movements is a comparative study of the environmental movement's successes and failures in four very different states: the USA, UK, Germany and Norway. The history covers the entire sweep of the modern environmental era that begins in 1970. The end in view is a green transformation of the state and society on a par with earlier transformations that gave us first the liberal capitalist state and then the welfare state. The authors explain why such a transformation is now most likely in Germany, and why it is least likely in the United States, which has lost the status of environmental pioneer that it gained in the early 1970s. Their comparative analysis also explains the role played by social movements in making modern societies more deeply democratic, and yields insights into the strategic choices of environmental movements as they decide on what terms to engage, enter or resist the state. Sometimes it makes sense for a movement to act conventionally, as a green party or set of interest groups. But sometimes inclusion can mean co-optation, in which case a movement can instead emphasize action in and through civil society.
Green States and Social Movements
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle.
Learn more
FREE Two-Day Shipping for students on millions of items. Learn more |
| ||||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
Review
... an excellent example of symbiosis between comparative institutional politics and political theory. s ... go a long way in addressing an important and but underresearched topic in comparative politics. s
About the Author
John Dryzek is at Australian National University. Daid Downs is at Victoria Department of Education.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
There are no customer reviews yet.
|
|||
|
Video reviews
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
In this introductory chapter we show how our analysis is rooted in the comparative history of states and social movements, and explain why we choose to look at the environmental movement in particular. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weak ecological modernization, strong ecological modernization, actively inclusive state, actively exclusive state, emerging state imperative, green public sphere, paragovernmental action, core economic imperative, oppositional civil society, legitimation imperative, paragovernmental activity, passive exclusion, passive inclusion, new social movement form, democratic authenticity, environmentalist influence, active exclusion, oppositional public sphere, effective franchise, oppositional sphere, core imperatives, risk society thesis, democratic benefits, inclusive states, state imperatives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Kingdom, Friends of the Earth, New Zealand, Nature Conservation Society, Bellona Foundation, Earth First, Ministry of the Environment, Brent Spar, Clean Air Act, Labour Party, Green Alliance, Margaret Thatcher, New Left, Reclaim the Streets, Sierra Club, Department of the Environment, Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Service, Iris Young, World Wildlife Fund, Cold War, Criminal Justice Act, David Brower, Environmental Home Guard New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
In this introductory chapter we show how our analysis is rooted in the comparative history of states and social movements, and explain why we choose to look at the environmental movement in particular. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weak ecological modernization, strong ecological modernization, actively inclusive state, actively exclusive state, emerging state imperative, green public sphere, paragovernmental action, core economic imperative, oppositional civil society, legitimation imperative, paragovernmental activity, passive exclusion, passive inclusion, new social movement form, democratic authenticity, environmentalist influence, active exclusion, oppositional public sphere, effective franchise, oppositional sphere, core imperatives, risk society thesis, democratic benefits, inclusive states, state imperatives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Kingdom, Friends of the Earth, New Zealand, Nature Conservation Society, Bellona Foundation, Earth First, Ministry of the Environment, Brent Spar, Clean Air Act, Labour Party, Green Alliance, Margaret Thatcher, New Left, Reclaim the Streets, Sierra Club, Department of the Environment, Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Service, Iris Young, World Wildlife Fund, Cold War, Criminal Justice Act, David Brower, Environmental Home Guard New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 100
books:
See all 100 books this book cites
7
books
cite this book:
See all 7 books citing this book
- Implementing Sustainable Development: Strategies and Initiatives in High Consumption Societies by William M. Lafferty in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Organizing Interests in Western Europe (Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies) by Suzanne Berger in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sustainable Development (Fabian Pamphlets) by Michael Jacobs on page 181, and Back Matter
- Developments in British Politics 7: Seventh Edition (Bk.7) by Patrick Dunleavy in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Debating the Earth: The Environmental Politics Reader by John S. Dryzek in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
See all 100 books this book cites
- Deliberative Global Politics: Discourse and Democracy in a Divided World (Key Concepts) by John S. Dryzek in Back Matter
- Deliberative Global Politics: Discourse and Democracy in a Divided World (Key Concepts) by John S. Dryzek in Back Matter
- Deliberative Environmental Politics: Democracy and Ecological Rationality by Walter F. Baber in Back Matter
- Deliberation and Decision: Economics, Constitutional Theory and Deliberative Democracy (Law, Ethics and Economics) by Anne Van Aaken on page 58
- Digital Era Governance: IT Corporations, the State, and e-Government by Patrick Dunleavy in Back Matter
See all 7 books citing this book
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
So You'd Like to...
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > Business & Investing > Popular Economics
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Science & Mathematics > Environmental Studies
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Social Sciences > Political Science > International Relations
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Social Sciences > Political Science > Public Policy
- Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Government > Public Policy
- Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics
- Books > Science & Math > Earth Sciences > Environmental Science
- Books > Science & Math > Environment > Environmentalism
