Chapter 8 Green politics in Greece at the time of fiscal crisis

PurposeI wish to describe a role-playing simulation, as opposed to an educational game. A game normally has an elaborate set of rules and requires participants to function within the logic of its own reality. A role-playing simulation, on the other hand, allows the participants to maintain their own personalities and values as they interact within far more general roles and rules, creating a unique reality each time. The goal of this particular simulation is to overcome a public policy problem within a simulated political environment.

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Lessons To Be Learned: The New York City Municipal Unions, the 1970s Fiscal Crisis, and New York City at a Crossroads after September 11

International Labor and Working-Class History ◽

10.1017/s0147547902000248 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 62 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Spear

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

September 11 ◽

Fiscal Crisis

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Green Politics and the New Class: Selfishness or Virtue?

Political Studies ◽

10.1111/j.1467-9248.1989.tb01479.x ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 37 (2) ◽

pp. 205-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 60

Author(s):

Robyn Eckersley

Keyword(s):

Middle Class ◽

Production Process ◽

Green Movement ◽

New Class ◽

Green Parties ◽

New Middle Class ◽

Social Composition ◽

The Social ◽

Green Politics ◽

Material Values

The predominantly new middle-class social composition of the green movement has become a matter of increasing interest in the wake of the success of green parties and the growth of an international green movement. This paper considers the concept of the ‘new class' in relation to two explanations for the social composition of the green movement. The class-interest argument seeks to show that green politics is a means of furthering either middle-class or new-class interests while the ‘new childhood’ argument claims that the development of the green movement is the result of the spread of post-material values, the main bearers of which are the new class. Against these arguments a more comprehensive explanation is presented, which focuses on the education of the new class and its relative structural autonomy from the production process.

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City Management and the Emerging Welfare State: Evolution of City Budgets and Civic Responsibilities in Montreal, 1931–1951

Journal of Policy History ◽

10.1017/s0898030600006059 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 339-357 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jean-Pierre Collin

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Middle Class ◽

Social Needs ◽

Fiscal Crisis ◽

Political Life ◽

City Management ◽

Political Machines ◽

The Great Depression ◽

State Evolution ◽

The City

The Great Depression of the 1930s transformed municipal political life in Montreal, as it did that in other major cities in North America. For one thing, the debate between populists and reformers was revived as the electoral scene underwent fundamental changes. In many cities, political machines running on patronage became more influential as the middle class began to desert the city for the suburbs. At the same time, the margin of budgetary maneuvering available to cities was shrinking, and local public finances were reduced. Municipalities that had been obliged to borrow to meet social needs resulting from the depression were faced with a prolonged fiscal crisis, which for many of them resulted in bankruptcy and trusteeship. This was Montreal's fate in 1940.

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