Greening Democracy Milder Paperback Cambridge University Press 9781316501061

Greening DemocracyThe Anti-Nuclear Movement and Political Environmentalism in West Germany and Beyond, 19681983\nAuthor(s): Stephen Milder\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781316501061, 978-1316501061\nSynopsis\nGreening Democracy explains how nuclear energy became a seminal political issue and motivated new democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s. Using interviews, as well as the archives of environmental organizations and the Green party, the book traces the development of anti-nuclear protest from the grassroots to parliaments. It argues that worries about specific nuclear reactors became the basis for a widespread anti-nuclear movement only after government officials' unrelenting support for nuclear energy caused reactor opponents to become concerned about the state of their democracy. Surprisingly, many citizens thought transnationally, looking abroad for protest strategies, c.