Robert E. Goodin 
Green Political Theory [EPUB ebook] 

With their remarkable electoral successes, Green parties worldwide
seized the political imagination of friends and foes alike.
Mainstream politicians busily disparage them and imitate them in
turn. This new book shows that ‘greens’ deserve to be taken more
seriously than that.

This is the first full-length philosophical discussion of the
green political programme. Goodin shows that green public policy
proposals are unified by a single, coherent moral vision – a ‘green
theory of value’ – that is largely independent of the `green theory
of agency’ dictating green political mechanisms, strategies and
tactics on the one hand, and personal lifestyle recommendations on
the other. The upshot is that we demand that politicians implement
green public policies, and implement them completely, without
committing ourselves to the other often more eccentric aspects of
green doctrine that threaten to alienate so many potential
supporters.

Tabella dei contenuti

Preface.

Part I: What’s New?:.

1. The Issues.

2. The Arguments.

3. The Organizations.

4. The Thesis.

Part II: A Green Theory of Value: .

5. The Good and the Valuable.

6. A Taxonomy of Theories of Value.

7. History and Process as Sources of Value.

8. Naturalness as a Source of Value.

9. Humanity and Nature.

10. Green Corollaries.

11. Green Heresies.

Part III: The Unity of the Green Programme:.

12. Single-issue Groups versus Catch-all Parties.

13. A Unified Moral Vision.

14. Claims of Consistency.

15. Brown Evasions.

16. Weighing Countervailing Values.

17. Compromising Green Values.

Part IV:.

18. Theories of Value and Theories of Agency.

19. Principles of Green Political Action.

20. Principles of Green Party Organization.

21. Principles of Green Political Structures.

22. Conclusion.

Part V: Conclusions:.

23. The Fate of Green Politics.

24. The Fate of the Earth.

Appendix: The Green Political Programme.

References.

Index.

Circa l’autore

Robert E. Goodin has written a number of books on political theory, public policy and applied ethics. He is also the founding Editor of the new Journal of Political Philosophy and was previously co-editor of the British Journal of Political Science.