Greece debt crisis threatens democracy
Athens is no longer considered by scholars as the birthplace of democracy but all of a...
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John Keane interviews Senator Bob Brown, leader of the Australian Greens
Professor John Keane is in conversation with Senator Bob Brown, leader of the Australian Greens. This...
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Bob Brown and the media: ‘I’ll take them on … they’ve crossed the line’
Welcome to “In Conversation”, the first in a series of discussions between leading academics and major...
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Is Democracy a Dirty Word?
Abraham Lincoln famously said that democracy is of the people, by the people and for the...
Read MoreThe war on euphemism
This morning John Keane, a politics professor at the University of Sydney, argues that the only accurate...
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Bin Laden, Assassination and Democracy
Osama bin Laden is dead – assassinated a fortnight ago by bullets sprayed from the guns...
Read MoreAustralia’s AV preference
BBC Radio 4 interviews Johan Keane about optional preferential voting system in Australia Australia is the only...
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Revolution in the Arab world
A new word is needed to describe these events of recent months. They should be called...
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Revolution in the Arab world
Great revolutionary convulsions typically trigger long-lasting reflections on their causes and consequences. The European tradition of...
Read MoreA Productive Challenge: Unelected Representatives Can Enrich Democracy
During the last quarter of the eighteenth century, in various parts of the Atlantic region, the...
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