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Democracy and extremism are usually considered opposites. We assume our system (in the UK, the USA, The Netherlands etc) is democratic, and extremists try to destroy our system and introduce some kind of dictatorship, if not chaos and anarchy. Oddly enough, however, many contemporary groups that are described as extremists by political scientists, claim to defend democracy. Only here and there some fringe groups still reject democracy and argue for an authoritarian regime. Are the other (supposedly) extremist groups merely hypocrites and opportunists who pay merely lip-service to democracy?...

When green parties emerged in the 1980s, not only did they question established ideas about nature and economic growth, they also challenged the 'iron law' of Roberto Michels that all parties inevitably follow a similar path towards informal concentration of power and oligarchy. Grass-roots democracy was both an ideological tenet and an organizational project for practically all green parties. These days the greens have lost their glamour and innocence. They have grown up and even joined governing coalitions in several countries. Did they leave grass-roots democracy by the roadside on the way...

This book presents a uniquely comprehensive and balanced survey of current green political ideas. It analyses the ability of these ideas to provide plausible answers to fundamental problems in political theory, concerning justice and democracy, individual rights and freedom, human nature and gender. The authors, who come from a range of different disciplines, explore the relationship between green ideas and other traditions including liberalism, anarchism, feminism and Christianity.