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Covers the development & setbacks of the Greek Greens in terms of organizing, forming parties, & participating in elections from the early 1990s to the present. 2 References.

How do non-state actors frame climate change in a region labelled as a climate hotspot? To answer this question, this article explores the climate communication strategies of non-state actors with various country origins. Adopting the quantitative content analysis method, it comparatively analyses differing frame utilizations (e.g. ecological/meteorological, policy, economic and energy interests, culture, science and technology, civil society) of non-state actors in their selected climate change/global warming-related reports (n=89) on the Mediterranean. The findings provide clues on the cosmopolitan framing of non-state actors on the regional level.

The current thesis investigates the emergence, growth and trajectory followed by the Greek environmental movement. It tries to account for the apparent weakness of this movement and suggests that this should be traced back to the weakness of the Greek civil society, itself an outcome of the specific socio-economic development of Greece which allowed for vertical modes of political participation and societal organisation to prevail well into the end of the twentieth century. Trying to account for the failures of the Greek environmental movement following models established for western European countries, which enjoy a much stronger civil society, is starting with the wrong foot. The thesis follows the developments both at the socio-political and the administrative level over the last 25 years and reaches the conclusion that the Greek environmental movement, because of the specific social conditions prevailing in Greece, is an 'illusory' movement: it has the shape of a western-like environmental movement yet they are void of any substance. It is thus implied that the history of the Greek green movement over the past years might be typical of countries sharing a similar socioeconomic development to Greece's –that is other 'semi-peripheral' countries- yet the current thesis does not attempt any comparison. It rather establishes that any future comparative research involving Greece among other European countries should take into account the sui generis characteristics of the Greek case. Latest evidence [2001] points towards a 'Westernisation' of the Greek green movement, itself an outcome of developments both at the EU and the national level. Nevertheless it is still too early, and subsequently it would be highly speculative, to assume that the Greek green movement is about to embark on a trajectory similar to its western counterparts. Thus the current thesis is most probably an overview of things past. Developments in the coming years would allow researchers to account whether the Greek green movement f the 21st ...

This article investigates green party members' activism in the environmental movement and tests how a number of predictors, theoretically suggested in the past yet rarely empirically tested, can account for it. The authors' analysis is based on an extensive data set of members of 15 green parties in 12 European countries ( N = 6,639). This article finds that members' activism can be accounted for largely by network and identity variables, as suggested by social movements' scholars, whereas "new social movements" theories did not adequately explain environmental activism. Thus, network or identity variables, such as past activism, membership in environmental organizations, and activism in other social movements, are significant in the multivariate model. A number of alternative models are significant alone but not when network or identity variables are added to the model: postmaterialism, a "new environmental paradigm" worldview, and political attitudes. Although age, rational choice considerations, and new middle-class placement remain statistically significant, yet—for the latter case—its effect is negative. Macro-level variables, such as the green party's governmental experience, the country's quality of natural environment as well as environmental policies, were also found to have statistically significant effects on activism.

Examines the impact of the economic crisis on peripheral European states such as Ireland and Greece. This book focuses on governance, sustainable politics and environmental policies, within the context of accelerated growth and the subsequent economic downturn. It also examines issues of governance and politics within these peripheral states.