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Book Reviews ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT BOOK REVIEWS / March 2000 Margit Mayer and John Ely (Eds., with Michael Schatzschneider, Trans.). The German Greens: Paradox Between Movement and Party. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. In an age in which political parties have lost much of their dynamism, the Ger man Green Party (Die Gruenen) emerged on the political stage as one of the most important political innovations of the second half of the 20th century. Where other parties have largely geared their programmatic activities to the narrow interests of vote-gathering, the Greens have devoted their efforts to the larger political and social issues of the times—environmental protection, inequality, women’s issues, and human rights in particular. Rejecting accommodation to industrial society, the party has aggressively called for the redesign of economic activity along the lines of sustainable development. And they have done this with considerable political success. Today they are part of the “Red-Green Coalition” that governs a reunified Germany. Such political suc cess, not surprisingly, has led many to see the German Greens as the model for other ecological movements around the world. Although there is much to justify this enthusiasm for the German Greens, the actual story of the party’s rise http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

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Organization & Environment , Volume 13 (1): 9 – Mar 1, 2000
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ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT BOOK REVIEWS / March 2000 Margit Mayer and John Ely (Eds., with Michael Schatzschneider, Trans.). The German Greens: Paradox Between Movement and Party. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. In an age in which political parties have lost much of their dynamism, the Ger man Green Party (Die Gruenen) emerged on the political stage as one of the most important political innovations of the second half of the 20th century. Where other parties have largely geared their programmatic activities to the narrow interests of vote-gathering, the Greens have devoted their efforts to the larger political and social issues of the times—environmental protection, inequality, women’s issues, and human rights in particular. Rejecting accommodation to industrial society, the party has aggressively called for the redesign of economic activity along the lines of sustainable development. And they have done this with considerable political success. Today they are part of the “Red-Green Coalition” that governs a reunified Germany. Such political suc cess, not surprisingly, has led many to see the German Greens as the model for other ecological movements around the world. Although there is much to justify this enthusiasm for the German Greens, the actual story of the party’s rise

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