One of the world's foremost experts on the history of democratic government has delivered a scathing verdict on the Australian election campaign. John Keane is himself an Australian, but over the last three decades has been teaching overseas, with professorships in...
Read MoreDr. Bridget Cotter interviews John Keane, 9 June - CSD Bulletin, Summer 2010 John Keane discusses the reception of The Life and Death of Democracy in an interview with Bridget Cotter. This interview was published in the CSD Bulletin, Summer, 2010,...
Read MoreEn su celebrado libro Life and death of democracy el profesor Keane de la Westminster University afirma que la democracia representativa no nació en Inglaterra sino en las Cortes Leonesas de 1188. El escritor Juan Pedro Aparicio relata el magno...
Read MoreDemocracy did not emerge as an historical inevitability, John Keane tells Peter Clarke Inside Story There are some shocks in John Keane’s latest book, The Life and Death of Democracy. First, he punctures the “democracy started in Athens” myth – “assembly democracy,”...
Read MoreWe fight wars to defend it, vote to uphold it and pride ourselves upon it. But what's so good about democracy? In this wide ranging talk, Professor John Keane, author of "The Life and Death of Democracy", discusses the history of...
Read MoreIn this conversation with Lindsay Tanner MP, John Keane addresses some of the misunderstandings and misconceptions of democracy and looks to its future, in Australia and abroad. Melbourne Writers Festival, August 2009 See the original link here...
Read MoreLate Night Live Democracy: "the invention was a potent form of wishful thinking that is still with us today" so says the scholar John Keane. As we wait for the results from Afghanistan's recent elections; observe the passionate protests in Iran...
Read MorePM's ABC Australia In the words of Winston Churchill, "democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." That implies, of course, that democracy is just one thing, when its history indicates that it has been...
Read MoreJohn Keane is guest of Riz Khan at Al Jazeera's One on One 6 July - 2009 If you can not see the video please go to this webpage here...
Read MoreHow much Parliamentary reform and change does our democracy need and can our politicians stomach it? Professor of Politics John Keane from the University of Westminster looks at the options. Watch Here...
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