In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice. Environmentalism and ecologism have become fashionable, even respectable schools of political thought. This apparently successful integration of environmental movements, issues and ideas in mainstream politics raises the question of whether there is a future for what once was a counter-movement and counter-ideology. Liberal Democracy and Environmentalism provides a reflective assessment of recent developments, social relevance and future of environmental...
In recent decades, environmental issues have increasingly been incorporated into liberal democratic thought and political practice. Environmentalism a...
The liberal concept of rights or the idea of human rights it has fathered, has been widely believed to provide a viable language for articulating visions of political change vis-?-vis democratization in developing countries. While students of politics realize that cultural constraints need to be considered in designing models of political change, they have paid relatively little attention to the important need for re-describing the liberal concept of rights in a way that is sensitive to the cultural particularity of liberalism. The result is a growing inability to explain why there continues...
The liberal concept of rights or the idea of human rights it has fathered, has been widely believed to provide a viable language for articulating visi...
