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Despite considerable media and popular interest in environmentalism, environmentalist movements and Green parties, there has been relatively little systematic academic assessment of the factors involved in the formation, development and electoral performance of Green parties in Europe. The Green Challenge is an up to date comparative analysis of the rise, development and varying electoral success of Green Parties in western, southern and central Europe. It provides a common comparative perspective and contextual setting through which the very different fortunes of individual Green parties operating in different national circumstances can be analyzed. By using a comparative thematic perspective rather than a pre-ordained theory, The Green Challenge not only points out the deficiencies of existing theoretical studies but illuminates the primary factors which have helped to make the rise of political ecology such an important development in contemporary Europe. Its conceptual unity and coherence of approach make it essential reading not only for students of Green politics but for Green activists and anyone interested in the rise of political ecology. Dick Richardson, University of Teesside, Gene E. Frankland, Ball State University, indiana, Alastair Cole and Brian Doherty, University of Keele, Chris Rootes, Unive

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`I have been looking forward to The Green Challenge for some time... Richardson and Rootes have helpfully sandwiched chapters about Germany, France, Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Czechoslovakia, with a look at Green party philosophy and programmatic development and an overview of the formation and development of Green parties... readable and uncluttered.' - Sarah Parkin, Resurgence

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