PARTIES AND MOVEMENTS
UK
Labour Party (http://www.labour.org.uk/)
Conservative Party (http://www.conservative-party.org.uk/)
Liberal Democrat Party (http://www.libdems.org.uk/)
Scottish National Party (http://www.snp.org/)
Plaid Cymru (Welsh Nationalists) (http://www.plaidcymru.org/)USA
Democratic Party (http://www.democrats.org/index.html)
Republican Party (http://www.rnc.org/)NOTES
1 There have also been several other factions, such as ecosocialists, within the
German Greens. See Markovits and Gorski ( 1993 ), Doherty ( 2002 )andTalshir
(2002)forafuller discussion of thefundi--realodebate.
2 See Bluhdorn ( ̈ 2004 )for an interesting discussion of the potential for a coalition
between the Greens and the Christian Democrats.
3 Noattempt is made here to judge which of these countries has the best
environmental policies.
4 For an analysis of German environmental policy, see Rudig ( ̈ 2003 )andWurzel
(2004).
5 For an analysis of British environmental policy, see Carter and Lowe ( 1998 ),
Jordan ( 2002 )andBarryandPaterson( 2005 ).
6 Davis and Wurth ( 2003 ), measuring different environmental variables from Guber
(2003), argue that environmental factors were of significance in determining
voting behaviour in the 1996 presidential election.
7 For an analysis of US environmental policy, see Sussman et al. ( 2002 ), Rosenbaum
(2005a)andVigand Kraft (2006a).
8 Al Gore had written a best-selling book,Earth in the Balance, which argued for
environmental protection to be given high priority.