A comprehensive account of the development of Green parties in Europe, demonstrating the shifting balance of party-political competition - the factor the authors believe most strongly influences the fortunes of the Greens.

This title offers an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the development of Green parties in Western Europe, and includes an account of the development, since 1989, of an East European Green movement.

`I have been looking forward to The Green Challenge for some time... Richardson and Rootes have helpfully sandwiched chapters about Germany, France, Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Czechoslovakia, with a look at Green party philosophy and programmatic development and an overview of the formation and development of Green parties... readable and uncluttered.' - Sarah Parkin, Resurgence