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The green state : rethinking democracy and sovereignty
Robyn Eckersley
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2004
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Book description
In this book, the author explores what it might take to create a green democratic state as an alternative to the classical liberal democratic state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state, and neoliberal market-focused state - seeking, she writes, "to navigate between undisciplined political imagination and pessimistic resignation to the status quo". The green state seeks to connect the moral and practical concerns of the environmental movement with contemporary theories about the state, democracy, and justice.This is the first book to make the vision of a "good" green state explicit, to explore the obstacles to its achievement, and to suggest practical constitutional and multilateral arrangements that could help transform the liberal democratic state into a postliberal green democratic state.
About the author
Robyn Eckersley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. She is author ofEnvironmentalism and political theory: toward an ecocentric approach.
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