Green States and Social Movements

Environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway

Bibliographic Data

ID23399150
AuthorsJohn S Dryzek (0000-0001-6358-0047, Australian National University), Daid Downs, David Downes (0009-0001-4894-1139, Victoria Department of Education and Training), Christian Hunold (0000-0001-9498-9988, Drexel University), David Schlosberg (0000-0003-3547-919X, Northern Arizona University), John Dryzek, Hans-Kristian Hernes (University of Tromsø), Hans‐kristian Hernes (0000-0002-7582-4245, UiT The Arctic University of Norway)
Year2003
Pages223
Publication date2003-02-20
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGreen states and social movements (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/0199249024.001.0001
OpenAlexW4237480219
Open LibraryOL18140538M
ISBN9780199249022
LanguageEN
Citations received211
References cited104

Social movements take shape in relation to the kind of state they face, while, over time, states are transformed by the movements they both incorporate and resist. Social movements are central to democracy and democratization. This book examines the interaction between states and environmentalism, emblematic of contemporary social movements. The analysis covers the entire sweep of the modern environmental era that begins in the 1970s, emphasizing the comparative history of four countries: the US, UK, Germany, and Norway, each of which captures a particular kind of interest representation. Interest groups, parties, mass mobilizations, protest businesses, and oppositional public spheres vary in their weight and significance across the four countries. The book explains why the US was an environmental pioneer around 1970, why it was then eclipsed by Norway, why Germany now shows the way, and why the UK has been a laggard throughout. Ecological modernization and the growing salience of environmental risks mean that environmental conservation can now emerge as a basic priority of government, growing out of entrenched economic and legitimation imperatives. The end in view is a green state, on a par with earlier transformations that produced first the liberal capitalist state and then the welfare state. Any such transformation can be envisaged only to the extent environmentalism maintains its focus as a critical social movement that confronts as well as engages the state.

Comparative politics · Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Economics · Environmental movement · Environmentalism · Legitimation · New social movements · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · State (computer science) · Welfare state · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Social Policy and Reform Studies · 21st century · c 1970 to c 1980 · c 1980 to c 1990 · c 1990 to c 2000 · Central government policies · Current Events · Demonstrations & protest movements · Environmental Science · Environmentalist thought & ideology · Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations · Germany · Great britain · Green movement · International Relations · International Relations - General · Norway · Politics/International Relations · Pressure groups & lobbying · Public Policy - General · United Kingdom · USA

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