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Green Political Theory

By Robert E. Goodin

Book information

Publisher
Polity Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0745610277, 9780745610276
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (21815986 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
240\252
Time added
2018-08-12 09:55:28

Description

With their remarkable electoral successes, Green parties worldwideseized the political imagination of friends and foes alike.Mainstream politicians busily disparage them and imitate them inturn. This new book shows that 'greens' deserve to be taken moreseriously than that. This is the first full-length philosophical discussion of the greenpolitical programme. Goodin shows that green public policyproposals are unified by a single, coherent moral vision - a 'greentheory of value' - that is largely independent of the `green theoryof agency' dictating green political mechanisms, strategies andtactics on the one hand, and personal lifestyle recommendations onthe other. The upshot is that we demand that politicians implementgreen public policies, and implement them completely, withoutcommitting ourselves to the other often more eccentric aspects ofgreen doctrine that threaten to alienate so many potentialsupporters.

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