A Rhetoric of the People: The German Greens and the New Politics

by William E. Coleman

Since 1983, when the West German public elected several of their party members to representative seats in the Bundestag, the Greens (Die Grunen) have been a political force. A Rhetoric of the People studies how the German Greens have evolved a rhetorical style that is characteristic of a social movement, voicing citizen dissatisfaction with representative democracy and the insensitive decision making of traditional political and economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275940837
• ISBN13: 9780275940836
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"