By Elim Papadakis
ISBN-10: 051151817X
ISBN-13: 9780511518171
ISBN-10: 0521554071
ISBN-13: 9780521554077
ISBN-10: 0521556317
ISBN-13: 9780521556316
Environmentalism is among the significant problems with our time. A key query is how responsive are Australian associations to the demanding situations posed by way of environmental matters? This booklet specializes in how successfully political associations and corporations may be able to tackle matters concerning the deterioration of our surroundings. The booklet considers the most important avid gamers in environmental debate and policy-making: social hobbies, curiosity teams, political events, the media, the parliaments and the forms. It comprises a lot wealthy empirical fabric. This stimulating and unique publication makes a big contribution not just to environmental politics, yet to the ways that associations can turn into greater and aware of social forces. will probably be of curiosity not just to political scientists and sociologists, yet to environmental activists and policy-makers themselves.
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There are numerous mechanisms to restrict the power and influence of bureaucrats. 1 Factors of unequal power in the state Politics and politicians Administration Diffuse base (electors) Amateurism Public action Need for legitimation Short tenure Small number of agents Specific base Professionalism Behind-the-scenes action No need for legitimation Usually a job for life Plethora of agents Source: Janicke 1990: 26, table 2. ties between politicians and the bureaucracy and between industry and politics are not represented in his typology.
In other words, institutions are shaped by history: Whatever other factors may affect their form, institutions have inertia and 'robustness'. They therefore embody historical trajectories and turning points. History matters because it is 'path dependent': Whatever comes first (even if it was in some sense 'accidental') conditions what comes later. Individuals may 'choose' their institutions, but they do not choose them under circumstances of their own making, and their choices in turn influence the rules within which their successors choose (Putnam 1993: 8).
Again, it is worth reiterating that, provided new concepts can be formulated and political organisations grasp the opportunity to promote these concepts, an issue that has smouldered in the background of political debate for long periods of time (for decades or even centuries) can rapidly become politically significant. 1. However, rather than begin by focusing on expert communities and the question of the origins of ideas about the environment, part II will pick up some of the key questions raised in the preceding chapters, notably the possibilities for political institutions to bring about social change.