In February 2010, John Keane delivered lectures and gave interviews about The Life and Death of Democracy in Spain. There was special interest in the birthplace of modern parliaments, Leon. Click on the links below to read a selection of...
Read MoreThe Australian Financial Review Magazine. 11 December 2009 p. 16, Interview by Janne Ryan and photo by Louise Kennerley. PDF...
Read MoreThe Sctotsman: 03 December 2009 By CHRISTOPHER MACKIE Click here to read article in scanned PDF format...
Read MoreJohn Keane interviewed by Paul Kildea for Final draft, Radio 2SER FM, Sydney...
Read More4 October 2009 IQ2 Australian Debate Winston Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried. In western countries like Australia the universal good of democracy is simply assumed. But...
Read MoreJohn Keane leidt het 'Centre for the Study of Democracy' aan de University of Westminster in Londen. Vorige maand verscheen van hem de vuistdikke en ronduit indrukwekkende geschiedenis van de democratie: 'The Life and Death of Democracy'. "Het lijkt zo vanzelfsprekend",...
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 MoreThis interview was published in the WZB Mitteilungen Nr. 125 Handeln, Regieren, Regulieren in einer entgrenzten Welt InternationalisierungSeptember 2009 PDF...
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...
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