David Stavasage, The Decline and Rise of Democracy: a Global History From Antiquity to Today Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford, 2020), 424 pp., ISBN: 978-0691228976 Democracy and its unknowns A short story by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges tells of an...
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When democratically elected governments cease to be held accountable by a society weakened by poor health, low morale and joblessness, demagogues are prone to blindness and ineptitude HOW DO DEMOCRACIES die? The old question has a new urgency because global surveys are...
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Monitory democracyLa politica ha bisogno di molta immaginazione per resistere al populismo degli ultimi anni Eugenio Giannetta John Keane, docente dell’Università di Sidney e consigliere per le Nazioni Unite ci spiega perché i partiti tradizionali devono cambiare approccio ed essere più creativi per...
Read MoreCitizenship and Responsibility in the New World of Uncertainty Keynote lecture of the UNESCO MOST Winter School 2021 by iASK https://youtu.be/8ahcZhTOo6E...
Read MoreThe interview was originally published on Avvenire (Rome). Intervista. Il politologo John Keane: in democrazia serve umiltà Alessandro Zaccuri martedì 16 marzo 2021 Secondo il filosofo «l’attuale crisi dei processi di rappresentanza può essere affrontata consolidando e moltiplicando gli organismi di controllo partecipativo, che fanno...
Read MoreJohn Keane. Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory/Revue canadienne de theorie sociale et politique, Vol.6, No.3, (Fall/Automne,1982). Public opinion...
Read MoreBEGINNINGS Forty years ago, mere mention of the phrase civil society generally caused puzzlement mixed with misunderstanding and confusion.1 The two small words functioned as conversation stoppers. They seemed otherworldly, ghostly, and sterile; they sounded like nonwords. There were exceptions. Talk...
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'El Regreso de la Sociedad Civil', Letras Libres (February 2021) John Keane COMIENZOS Hace cuarenta años, la mera mención del sin- tagma sociedad civil causaba una mezcla de des- concierto, malentendido y confusión. Las dos pequeñas palabras servían para detener la conversación. Parecían...
Read MoreDecoding the new Chinese empire John Keane, Australian Foreign Affairs 11 (February 2021) When future historians look back on our discordant times, they will surely note an epochal shift of global importance: the return of China, after nearly two centuries of humiliation,...
Read MoreDesperacja despotów Prof. John Keane, politolog, o tym, jak ustrój państwa i jakość przywódców wpływają na skuteczność walki z pandemią. JACEK ŻAKOWSKI: – Czego o naszych demokracjach dowiedzieliśmy się przez rok pandemii? JOHN KEANE: – To już rok? 7 stycznia 2020 r. Chiny...
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