Party competition, social movements and postmaterialist values: Exploring the rise of green parties in France and Germany

Kaelberer, Matthias

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“…Poguntke (1987Poguntke ( , 1992Poguntke ( , 1993, in tracking the evolving nature of the German Greens, one of the earliest and most successful Green parties, noted that federal MPs quickly came to realise that exigencies of parliament required modification to the party's organisation. Faucher (1999) and Kaelberer (1998) both noted similar developments in the French Greens, although change was at a much slower rate. Otto Wolf (2003) has argued that the German Greens are succumbing to the inevitability of all political party organisations: to centralise their decision-making structures and vest leadership within membership elites.…”

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“…Specifically, each of the MPs interviewed was asked for her/his understanding and application of 'leadership' and organisational leadership structures within their state and federal parliamentary party rooms (PPR). Although the role of leaders has been examined in the context of European Green parties (Kaelberer, 1998;Katz and Mair, 1993;Kitschelt, 1989;Mayer and Ely, 1998;Poguntke, 1987), it is less well examined in the Australian parliamentary setting. The Australian Greens are now involved in passing legislation in both houses of the Commonwealth parliament, and in the state and territory parliaments of New South Wales, (NSW), Victoria (Vic), Tasmania (Tas), Western Australia (WA), South Australia (SA) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).…”

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Leadership and the Australian Greens

Cunningham

Jackson

2014

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This paper examines the inherent tension between a Green political party's genesis and official ideology and the conventional forms and practices of party leadership enacted in the vast bulk of other parties, regardless of their place on the ideological spectrum. A rich picture is painted of this ongoing struggle through a case study of the Australian Greens with vivid descriptions presented on organisational leadership issues by Australian state and federal Green members of parliaments. What emerges from the data is the Australian Green MPs' conundrum in retaining an egalitarian and participatory democracy ethos while seeking to expand their existing frame of leadership to being both more pragmatic and oriented towards active involvement in government.

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Leadership and the Australian Greens

Cunningham

Jackson

2014

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“…concern for the environment which is increasingly devastated by industrial and technological development (Kaelberer, 1998;Tranter, Western, 2009).…”

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German Green Party: the evolution of political agenda

Kwidziński

2020

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The purpose of the article is to present the evolution of the political agenda of the German Green Party (Die Grünen) between 1980 (establishment of the party, its first program manifesto – Das Bundesprogramm) and 2017 (recent German federal elections program – Zukunft Wird aus Mut Gemacht. Bundestagswahlprogramm). The research was conducted on the basis of the literature and the comparison of the two mentioned program manifestos. The hypothesis of the work is that the successes of the Greens in West Germany mainly result from the ideological, program, and strategic reorientation of the party that took place at the turn of 1980s and 1990s.

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“…To explain Green party electoral success, we distinguish among three main possible explanations: the opportunities presented by voter demands, the opportunities presented by favourable institutional arrangements and, most interestingly, the opportunities afforded by mainstream party strategies. Whereas previous studies have been relatively limited in terms of both space and time (Kaelberer 1998;Kitschelt 1989;Meguid 2008;M€ uller-Rommel 1993M€ uller-Rommel , 1998Petithomme 2008), we use a newly constructed aggregate level dataset of 347 general election results in 32 countries from 1970 to 2015. Using Tobit models to properly account for left-censoring (as some elections in some countries were not contested by Green parties), we find that, unlike for the radical left and right, it is the forces that shape voter demand that seem to matter most to Green electoral fortunes.…”

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Fertile soil: explaining variation in the success of Green parties

Grant

Tilley

2018

West European Politics

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Comparative political science has largely ignored the marked cross-national variation in Green party electoral performance. This article uses a unique aggregate dataset of 347 parliamentary elections from 32 countries over the course of 45 years to test competing theories about the causes of Green party success. The findings show that voter demand, institutions and mainstream party strategy all affect the Green vote. Green parties do well in societies with post-materialist conflicts caused by high levels of wealth or the presence of a tangible environmental dispute. The article also shows that regional decentralisation helps Green parties, but electoral systems have little effect on their vote share. Most importantly, it demonstrates that the impact of mainstream party strategy on Green electoral strength is dependent on the age of the Green party. While mainstream parties can undermine young Green parties by adopting the environmental issue, this effect is reversed once the Greens have survived a number of elections. Thus 'accommodative' mainstream party strategies eventually boost the Green vote by increasing the salience of the key Green issue. KEYWORDS Green parties; niche parties; environmentalism; party competition; post-materialism The Greens are the most enduring and cohesive new party family since the rise of the Social Democrats a century ago. From Italy to Ireland, Finland to France, Green parties have been regular participants in governing coalitions across developed democracies. And whether in government or not, many Green parties have blackmail or coalition kingmaker potential (Sartori 1976: 121-4). However, such success has not been universal. In some advanced democraciesfor example, Norway, Spain and Poland -Green parties remain fundamentally inconsequential electoral players.

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Party competition, social movements and postmaterialist values: Exploring the rise of green parties in France and Germany

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Leadership and the Australian Greens

Leadership and the Australian Greens

German Green Party: the evolution of political agenda

Fertile soil: explaining variation in the success of Green parties

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