Environmental politics and institutional change
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Environmental politics and institutional change
(Reshaping Australian Institutions)
Cambridge University Press, 1996
- : hard
- : pbk
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 222-231
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Environmentalism is one of the major issues of our time. A key question is how responsive are Australian institutions to the challenges posed by environmental issues? This book focuses on how effectively political institutions and organisations are able to address concerns about the deterioration of the environment. The book considers the key players in environmental debate and policy-making: social movements, interest groups, political parties, the media, the parliaments and the bureaucracy. It contains much rich empirical material. This stimulating and original book makes an important contribution not only to environmental politics, but to the ways in which institutions can become more effective and responsive to social forces. It will be of interest not only to political scientists and sociologists, but to environmental activists and policy-makers themselves.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction: 1. Innovation and tradition
- 2. Stimulus and response: the rise of environmentalism
- 3. Framing the analysis
- Part II. Political Institutions, Innovation and Social Change: 4. The 'centrality' of political institutions
- 5. The circularity of political communication and dialogue
- 6. Disrupting the circularity of political communication: the role of social movements
- 7. Design, evolution and the environmental movement
- Part III: Political Organisations and Adaptation: 8. Inertia and innovation
- 9. Missed opportunities: the Liberal and National parties
- 10. Leading the charge for the green vote: The Australian Labor Party
- 11. Fundamentally green: the Australian Democrats
- 12. Overcoming institutional inertia
- Part IV. The Media, Agenda Setting and Public Opinion: 13. The articulation of environmental issues by the media
- 14. Media stereotypes and adaptation
- 15. Public opinion and survey research
- 16. Mass opinion on environmental issues
- Part V. Conclusion: 17. Possibilities for constructive dialogue.
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