Green Party literature - history and analysis (essays)


A selection of Green Party essays - history and analysis
by Green party members, academics and others

2005

• Sowing Greens Seeds in the Asia Pacific Region: a report back from Kyoto. By Mike Feinstein, Santa Monica, California. Green Party of California.

2004

• Election 2004: Where do the Greens fit in Election 2004? By Nick Turnbull, University of New South Wales, Australia & Ariadne Vromen, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (September 2004)

• The Origins of Green Parties in Global Perspective. A forum of the Heinrich Boell Foundation and the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. (May 26th, 2004)

• Almost in Government, But Not Quite: The Swedish Greens, Bargaining Constraints and the Rise of Contact Parliamentarism. By Nicholas Aylnott and Torbjörn Bergman, Department of Political Science, Umeå University, Sweden. Paper presented to the "New Parties in Government" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Uppsala, Sweden, April 13th-19th, 2004)

• Greens in a rainbow: The impact of the governmental participation of the Belgian French-speaking Green Party Ecolo: an organisational and membership focused perspective. By Pascal Delwit, Emilie van Haute and Benoit Hellings, Centre d’étude de la vie politique, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Paper presented to the "New Parties in Government" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Uppsala, Sweden, April 13th-19th, 2004)

• Are the Green Parties still different? Comparison of the governmental participation of the green parties; The case of England, France and Sweden. By Guillaume Duseigneur, PhD Candidate, CEPEN, IEP de Lille, France. Paper presented to the "New Parties in Government" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Uppsala, Sweden, April 13th-19th, 2004)

• Moving from Movement to Government: Greens in Finland. By Jan Sundberg & Niklas Wilhelmsson , Department of Political Science, University of Helsinki. Paper presented to the "New Parties in Government" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Uppsala, Sweden, April 13th-19th, 2004)

2003

• 2003 - U.S. Green Year in Review. By Mike Feinstein, Santa Monica, California. Green Party of California.

• Between Ecotopia and Disillusionment: Green Parties in European Government 1990-2003. By Wolfgang Rüdig, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (2003)

• Challenge and Response --The Emergence of the Green Party in the United States. By John Rensenbrink. Green Horizon Magazine, Maine, United States (February, 2003)

• A Comparative Study of Middle Level Elites and Voters on Bundnis 90/ Die Grunen in Germany with Regards to Social and Political Representation. By Daniel Kresusser, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany. Paper presented to the "European Green Party Members: Analysing Political Behaviour" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Edinburgh, Scotland, March 28th-April 2nd, 2003)

• The Greenness of Danish Party Membership Linkage. By Karina Pedersen, University of Copenhagen. Paper presented to the "European Green Party Members: Analysing Political Behaviour" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Edinburgh, Scotland, March 28th-April 2nd, 2003)

• The Members of the Dutch Political Party GroenLinks: a first analysis. By Wijbrandt van Schuurr, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and Paul Lucardi. Paper presented to the "European Green Party Members: Analysing Political Behaviour" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Edinburgh, Scotland, March 28th-April 2nd, 2003)

• Global Greens 2001. By Margaret Blakers, Australian Greens. The Global Greens. Australian Greens and the Green Institute (2001). Story of the 2001 Global Green meeting in Canberra, Australia.(April 11tH-13th, 2001)

Coalition Formation and the Inclusion of Green Parties in Swedish Local Government. By Hanna Bäck,  Uppsala Universitetet, Sweden. Paper presented to the "Greens in Power: Government Formation, Policy Impact, and the Future of Green Parties" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Grenoble, France, April 5th-11th, 2001)

• The Italian Greens' Participation in the Centre-Left Government. By Roberto Biorcio, Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Universita di Milano Bicocca. Paper presented to the "Greens in Power: Government Formation, Policy Impact, and the Future of Green Parties" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Grenoble, France, April 5th-11th, 2001)

• Further to Fall? Adverse Conditions for the Survival of the Greens. By Ingolfur Blühdorn, University of Bath. Paper presented to the "Greens in Power: Government Formation, Policy Impact, and the Future of Green Parties" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Grenoble, France, April 5th-11th, 2001)

• Greens in Belgium: From Local to Governmental Participation in Power. By Jo Buellens, Vrijie Universiteit, Brussells, Belgium. Paper presented to the "Greens in Power: Government Formation, Policy Impact, and the Future of Green Parties" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Grenoble, France, April 5th-11th, 2001)

• The Greens and the Reform of German Citizenship Law. By Simon Green, University of Birmingham. Paper presented to the "Greens in Power: Government Formation, Policy Impact, and the Future of Green Parties" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Grenoble, France, April 5th-11th, 2001)

• A Piecemeal approach under Pressure of High Expectations: A preliminary evaluation of the energy and environmental policy of the German Red-Green Government. By Lutz Mez,  Freie Universität, Berlin and Janicke Martin & Piening Annette. Paper presented to the "Greens in Power: Government Formation, Policy Impact, and the Future of Green Parties" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Grenoble, France, April 5th-11th, 2001)

• Goals and Narrative in the Manifestos of the Green Leauge (Finland) By Rauli Mickelsson, University of Turku, Finland. Paper presented to the "Greens in Power: Government Formation, Policy Impact, and the Future of Green Parties" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Grenoble, France, April 5th-11th, 2001)

• How Greens Govern. The Experience of the Green Party in Lander Governments in the Federal German Republic. By Geoffrey Roberts, University of Manchester, England. Paper presented to the "Greens in Power: Government Formation, Policy Impact, and the Future of Green Parties" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Grenoble, France, April 5th-11th, 2001)

• The Electoral Effects of Green Government Participation; A Comparative Analysis. By Wolfgang Rüdig, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, April 2001. Paper presented to the "Greens in Power: Government Formation, Policy Impact, and the Future of Green Parties" workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Grenoble, France, April 5th-11th, 2001)

• Les Verts: Bilan Contrasté Après Trois ans au Pouvoir. Analysis of Greens in coalition in France from 1998-2000.

• After Institutionalisation, Which Participation at the French Greens? By Bruno Villlaba, Université d Llille II and Beatrice Bihan. Paper presented to the "Challenges to established party Organizations? Theory and practice of Green and Alternative Left party organization After institutionalisation " workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Copenhagen, Denmark, April 14th-19th, 2000)

1999

• From Earth’s last islands; The development of the first two Green parties (New Zealand and Tasmania) By Christine Dann, Green Party of Aeteorea/New Zealand. Chapter five, from her Ph.D. thesis, ''From Earth's last islands. The global origins of Green politics'' (Lincoln University, NZ, 1999)

• Time, Space and the Greens By Christine Dann, Green Party of Aeteorea/New Zealand. Chapter one, from her Ph.D. thesis, ''From Earth's last islands. The global origins of Green politics'' (Lincoln University, NZ, 1999)

• The 1999 European Elections - another breakthrough for the Greens. By Thomas Dietz, a sometimes unofficial historian of European Greens.

• The Relationships between Green Parties and Environmental Groups in Belgium, Germany and the U.K. By Dr. Qingzhi Huan, Visiting Scholar from April 1998 to April 1999; Department of Political Science Lüneburg University, Germany; Associate Professor in Political Science Department of International Politics Shandong University P. R. China. Paper presented to the " Environmental Protest in Comparative Perspective " workshop, European Consortium for Political Research (Mannheim, Germany, March 26th-31st, 1999)

1991

• The German Case: Die Grünen Short History - Basic Ideas. By Helmut Lippelt. Member of German Parliament, Die Grünen, Germany. Paper presented to the Conference on Ecological Movements and sustained Developement in Latin America and Europe, Institute for Latin American Studies, University of London (November 1991)

1990

• The Green Parties in Western Europe; A Brief History, Their Successes and Their Problems By Jürgen Maier, Federal Executive Committee, Die Grünen, Germany (May 13th, 1990)

1984

• Conversation with Petra K. Kelly, member of the Green Party and Member of the German Bundestag; and General Gert Bastian, Retired General and Member of the Bundestag. By Harry Kreisler, Conversations with History. Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, California, USA (October 23rd, 1984)