ABSTRACT
This volume’s initial ambition was not only to examine the evolution of Green parties as organizations, but to do so in a systematic way, over a long time span, and in many countries. Indeed, the contributions here above cover no less than 16 parties in 14 countries: all Western European countries where a durable Green party has consolidated at the national level,2 as well as all large Western liberal democracies: the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. In terms of time span, the country experts scrutinize the whole ‘story’ of the Greens as party organizations, from their emergence to the most recent developments, that is, a period of two to three decades in most cases, as many of these organizational stories began during the 1970s.
