Green Political Theory

With their remarkable electoral successes, Green parties worldwideseized the political imagination of friends and foes alike.Mainstream politicians busily disparage them and imitate them inturn. This new book shows that 'greens' deserve to be taken moreseriously than that.

This is the first full-length philosophical discussion of the greenpolitical programme. Goodin shows that green public policyproposals are unified by a single, coherent moral vision - a 'greentheory of value' - that is largely independent of the green theoryof agency' dictating green political mechanisms, strategies andtactics on the one hand, and personal lifestyle recommendations onthe other. The upshot is that we demand that politicians implementgreen public policies, and implement them completely, withoutcommitting ourselves to the other often more eccentric aspects ofgreen doctrine that threaten to alienate so many potentialsupporters.