Active Greens: An Analysis of the Determinants of Green Party Members' Activism in Environmental Movements

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 509-544

  Botetzagias, Iosif ^a   van Schuur, Wijbrandt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

environmental activism; Europe; green parties; party members; transnational comparison

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; ENVIRONMENTALISM; PARADIGM SHIFT; TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84863491709     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916510393278     Document Type: Article

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