文档介绍：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 patibility 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
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