The German green party, Die Grünen, emerged largely on the back of anti-repression and anti-nuclear movements, which in turn fed off students’ movements and citizens’ initiatives. The political principles of grassroots democracy guaranteed an uncommon openness of the party, and permitted the ample internal political differences to be exploited by the media. After the strongest period of the party, during the 1980s, the particular political constellations of German politics following the fall of the Berlin Wall, combined with the apparently inaccurate political strategy chosen by Die Grünen in the first all-German elections, caused the environmentalists to lose all their seats in national parliament. The party has been restructured in an attempt to offer to the new Germany a party that would guarantee democratization as a precondition to environmental and social justice for Germany.
IssueNo
4
Pages
185-200
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Source
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
