ISSN:0080-6757    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1990.tb00431.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Various conceptions of ‘Environmentalism’ and ‘New Politics’ are surveyed and their logical inconsistencies are identified. It is argued that only a conception of the crisis of industrial society, not the least evident in Eastern Europe, enables a consistent understanding of ‘new politics’. From this conception, stressing the limits of man's mastery over nature on the one hand and the limits of the expansion of formal rationality on the other, the ambivalences in ‘New Politics’ between ‘pre‐industrial’ and ‘post‐industrial’ solutions are identified. The article sketches how the ‘post‐industrial’ position can be developed. Neoliberalism and ‘green’ politics are identified not only as adversaries but rather as competing responses to the crisis of industrialism and the compatibility of ‘green’ a

ISSN:0080-6757    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1990.tb00432.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

The environmental problem is a complex, global and basic one which serves as a catalyser for the formation of new political preferences and value orientations. The salience of the environmental issue has continuously increased during the 1980s after a decline at the end of the 1970s and on into the early 1980s. A huge gap between personal complaint about the local environmental situation and general concern about the national and global situation has existed throughout the 1980s. With respect to the development of attitudes towards nuclear energy, a clear‐cut and persistent effect of the Chernobyl accident can be identified in all countries. Environmental concern is generally above the European average in Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. It is about average in Italy and mostly below the European average in Belgium, France, Ireland and the United Kingdom as well as in the three southern countries Greece, Portugal and Spain. This article provides a descriptive overview of the evolution of environmental attitudes using indicators which are repeatedly included in the biannual Eurobarometer surveys in the member‐states of the European Commun

ISSN:0080-6757    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1990.tb00433.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Not until 1989 did a Green political party participate in a national election in Norway. The Greens, however, only received 0.4 percent of the votes, and won no seats. Does this indicate that ecology and environmental issues are of no importance in Norway? On the contrary, environmental concern has to a large extent been assimilated into the party platforms and the public. In the 1989 election, environmental issues ranked as the second most important for the voters. The electoral system makes it relatively easy to establish new parties, and also for new parties to win seats. Several new parties emerged after the divisive EC debate in the early 1970s. The Liberal Party, which split on the EC issue in 1973, deliberately tried to rebuild its platform by focusing on green issues. But the Liberal Party has to a large extent remained a one‐issue party. Even though environmental issues were more prominent than ever before, the green Liberal Party did not succeed in winning a single seat in 1989. The Socialist Left Party, on the other hand, increased its number of seats from 6 to 17! Our analysis shows that environmental concern wasnotthe decisive factor behind the voters preference for the Socialist Left Party as opposed to the Liberal Party. Left‐right ideology was more important than environmental concern for the competition between these two parties. The data applied in this analysis are drawn from a long‐standing programme of Electoral Research at the Institute for Social Research. The programme is directed by Henry Valen and Bernt A

ISSN:0080-6757    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1990.tb00434.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Based on survey data from the Swedish Election Studies Program, the green breakthrough in Sweden is assessed. In the parliamentary election of 1988, for the first time in 70 years, a new party, the Greens, succeeded in getting representation in the SwedishRiksdag. The future situation of the Greens is very precarious, however. The analysis shows that the party's voters tend to belong to highly volatile groups in the Swedish electorate (young, big city, white collar). Furthermore, the Greens have to confront many different issue publics on environmental issues since a coherent green dimension structuring ordinary people's opinions on environmental issues has not yet developed in Sweden. The alternative green dimension is still to a very large extent an elite phenomenon in Swedish politics.

ISSN:0080-6757    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1990.tb00435.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

In Denmark, environmentalism has not generated significant political division between the working class and the new middle class; rather, it has reinforced the cleavage between the wage‐earning classes and the self‐employed, as well as the political cleavage between left and right. This is a warning against deterministic approaches, ignoring the importance of political articulation. The successfulness of the Danish Social Democrats in reinforcing the environmental consciousness of its adherents furthermore indicates that the conventional picture of the political weakness of the Danish Social Democrats, as compared to the Norwegian and Swedish sister parties, should perhaps be reconsidered when evaluating the parties' adaptability to the demands of post‐industrial so

ISSN:0080-6757    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1990.tb00436.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0080-6757    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1990.tb00437.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1990

数据来源: WILEY