0415144116.Routledge.Democracy.and.Green.Political.Thought.Sustainability.Rights.and.Citizenship.Jun.1996.pdf

DEMOCRACY AND GREEN POLITICAL

THOUGHT

The green movement has posed some tough questions for traditional justifications

of democracy. Should the natural world have rights? Can we take account of the

interests of future generations? Do we need to replace existing institutions to deal

with the ecological crisis? But questions have also been asked of the greens. Could

their idealism undermine democracy? Can greens be effective democrats?

In this book some of the leading writers on green political thought analyse these

questions, examining the discourse of green movements concerning democracy,

the status of democracy within green political thought, and the political institutions

that might be necessary to ensure democracy in a sustainable society. The debates

are not simply about the compatibility of democracy with green ideas, but also

about how best to define democracy itself.

The authors suggest that greens still have considerable work to do in fleshing

out the weaker elements in their conceptions of democracy. In particular,

representative institutions would still have an important role to play in any green

democracy. But taking green ideas seriously does require reconsideration of some

of the central foundations of liberal democracy, including the scope of the moral

community and the privileged status of the atomised individual citizen, divorced

from nature.

Contributors: Wouter Achterberg, John Barry, Neil Carter, Peter Christoff,

Andrew Dobson, Brian Doherty, Robyn Eckersley, Marius de Geus, Michael

Kenny, Mike Mills and Michael Saward.

EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE SERIES

Edited by Hans Keman

Vrije University, Amsterdam

On behalf of the European Consortium for Political Research

The European Political Science Series is published in Association with the

European Consortium for Political Research—the leading organisation concerned

with the growth and development of political science in Europe. The series will

present high-quality edited volumes on topics at the leading edge of current interest

in political science and related fields, with contributions from European scholars

and others who have presented work at ECPR workshops or research groups.

SEX EQUALITY POLICY IN WESTERN EUROPE

Edited by Frances Gardiner

DEMOCRACY AND GREEN

POLITICAL THOUGHT

Sustainability, rights and citizenship

Edited by

Brian Doherty and Marius de Geus

London and New York

First published 1996

by Routledge

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