ABSTRACT
The relationship between political parties and the environmental movement has been studied since the 1990s (e.g. Jamison et al., 1993; Diani, 1995; Kriesi et al., 1995; Rucht, 1995) but, thus far, no systematic empirical work addresses the relationship between political parties and community-based environmental activism. Recent studies focus on the relationship between environmental organisations and political parties (van der Heijden, 2002; Dalton et al., 2003), or on specific cases of grassroots activism (Rootes, 1995, 2006; Stearns & Almeida, 1998).
