Green inside activism for sustainable development: Political agency and institutional change

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Green Inside Activism and Institutional Change -- Introduction: The Challenges of Green Change -- Public Officials as Political Agents -- Green Inside Activism -- Purpose and Aims -- Green Institutional Change -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2 New Political Institutionalism -- Introduction -- Three Phases of Institutional Theorizing -- Understandings of Agency and Change in Institutional Theory -- Rational Choice Institutionalism -- Normative Institutionalism -- Sociological Institutionalism -- Historical Institutionalism -- Discursive Institutionalism -- Summary and Implications -- Toward a New Political Institutionalism -- Institutional Political Agency -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 The Political Nature of Inside Activism -- Introduction -- Political Agency of Public Officials -- Public Administration and Management -- Planning and Policy Studies -- Organization Theory, Social Movement Literature and Governance Research -- Key Lessons in Relation to Inside Activism -- Bridging the Divides -- The Political Nature of Green Inside Activism -- A Precise Concept -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 4 Green Inside Activism in Context -- Introduction -- What Contexts Tend to Give Rise to Inside Activism? -- An Institutional Phenomenon Whose Time Has Come? -- Consolidated or Fragmented Organizations? -- Forces of Consolidation -- Forces of Fragmentation -- Institutional Complexity and Dynamics -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 Mechanisms of Institutional Change -- Introduction -- Politics and Power in Public Organizations -- Power Conditions of Public Officials -- Mechanisms of Institutional Change -- Mechanisms of Power and Influence -- Expanding Political Agency -- Exploiting Institutional Ambiguities -- Dilemmas of Influence -- Conclusions -- References