Goodbye to movement politics? Organisational adaptation of the German green party

Banging on open doors? Stakeholder dialogue and the challenge of business engagement for UK NGOs

“…However, success pushed these organisations into direct contact with established parties and political institutions, possessing far greater experience and resources, which inevitably placed strain on both the organisational structures themselves, and the ability of environmental groups to achieve significant levels of change (see e.g. Poguntke 1993, Burchell 2002, Frankland et al 2008.…”

Protesters, Parliamentarians, Policymakers: The Experiences of Australian Green MPs

“…However, as the party gains legislative longevity it, and particularly its parliamentary party, faces significant pressures to increase political efficiency to cope with the conditions of parliamentary democracy. In Poguntke's (1993) words, will the Greens need to say 'goodbye to movement politics' in order to survive electorally and in the parliamentary arena?…”

“…The organisational pressures of adaptation faced by Green parties in Western Europe in response to electoral competition have been well documented (for example, Poguntke 1993Poguntke , 2001 Special Issue of the European Journal of Political Research 'Analyzing Greens in Power'), although their relationship to MPs' role orientations and perceptions of their parliamentary duties and loyalties remain under-researched. Previous scholars have argued that structural reforms are usually preceded by a change in the working culture of a political party (see Harmel and Janda 1994, p. 275;Poguntke 2001, p. 2) and therefore it is necessary to look at the attitudes of Green MPs, who are both shaped by, and in turn shape the working culture of the party as potential indicators of organisational adaptations to come.…”

“…A common theme underpinning existing research on Western European Green parties is that as these parties emerge from their social movement origins, gain parliamentary representation and participate in government, they lose their alternative dynamism and become more mainstream in their policy programmes, organisation and strategy (see Poguntke 1993, Bomberg and Carter 2006. Consequently, a key challenge identified for contemporary Green parties worldwide is to 'demonstrate both that they have not been completely deradicalised, either ideologically or organisationally, and that their presence in government [or even in parliament] can make a difference by advancing at least some parts of the Green policy agenda' (Bomberg and Carter 2006, p. 100).…”

Leadership and the Australian Greens

“…the deeply cultural androcentric interests' (51) of organisations, including political parties. Poguntke (1987Poguntke ( , 1992Poguntke ( , 1993, in tracking the evolving nature of the German Greens, one of the earliest and most successful Green parties, noted that federal MPs quickly came to realise that exigencies of parliament required modification to the party's organisation. Faucher (1999) and Kaelberer (1998) both noted similar developments in the French Greens, although change was at a much slower rate.…”