Deliberative Environmental Politics: Democracy and Ecological Rationality

by Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett

Book Overview

In Deliberative Environmental Politics, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett link political theory with the practice of environmental politics, arguing that the "deliberative turn" in democratic theory presents an opportunity to move beyond the policy stalemates of interest-group liberalism and offers a foundation for reconciling rationality, strong democracy, and demanding environmentalism. Deliberative democracy, which presumes that the essence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262524449
• ISBN13: 9780262524445
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher