Democracy and Environmental Movements in Eastern Europe
Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Hungary and Russia
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: August 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780813335186
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations; Political ideologies; Political structure & processes; Democracy; Ecological Politics; Political Science; Environmental Studies; Politics/International Relations; Hungary; Russia; Environmental Science; Political Ideologies - Democracy
Description: Democracy and Environmental Movements in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Study of Hungary and Russia is a systematic comparison of environmental activism - and more broadly, collective democratic action - in two former state socialist societies. Based on extensive research, Katy Pickvance offers us a study in contrasts: Russia stands as an example of continuing state centralization, while Hungary has democratized more successfully, which has encouraged citizen action.

The book sheds light on the differences between these relatively antithetical regimes and shows how such differences shape broader trends of civil and social action in democratizing nations.