Democracy: much more than pressing buttons and ticking boxes on ballot papers
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18
April
2023
Democracy in the 21st Century
America, America: John Keane’s contribution to an ABC Radio National debate about the dangers of despotism in the US and its declining empire
ABC Big Ideas - The state of America, broadcasted on Tue 11 Apr 2023 at 8:00pm The rise of far-right extremism, conflicts over gun law reform, widening economic gaps, and former President Donald Trump's continued push for influence. Are polarising polemics...
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11
April
2023
CGTN video series on democracy in the 21st century, with Wang Zhongyuan
CGTN video series on democracy in the 21st century, with Wang Zhongyuan (Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Shanghai), March 2023 Technology a double-edged sword to democracy Modern democracy and its alienation ...
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25
March
2023
People power? – A reply to James Miller
A reductionist definition of democracy as ‘people power’ fails to grasp democracy’s political evolution as guarantee against tyranny. Giving a voice to the biosphere extends this principle and is not to negate democracy’s own conditions. I thank James Miller for his commentary on...
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21
March
2023
How democracies die, fast and slow
'How Democracies Die, Fast and Slow', Eurozine (Vienna), 21 February 2023 Related posts: Bloodless democracy? A response to John Keane by James Miller, Eurozine (Vienna), 28 February 2023 http://www.johnkeane.net/people-power-a-reply-to-james-miller/ A Spanish translation of 'How Democracies Die, Fast and Slow' Letras libres (May 2023) Sudden death...
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21
February
2023
The greatest threat to democracy is rulers who are blind fools
Published in Polish in money.pl (13 October 2022) [gview file="http://www.johnkeane.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/John_Keane_Money.pl_.pdf"] ...
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13
October
2022
‘West’s liberal democracy not universal’, China Daily
Watch the video here as China Daily reporter Ian Goodrum talks about issues of democracy with John Keane, a professor of politics at the University of Sydney. What's his take on Chinese democracy and its practices? How does it differ from...
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06
September
2022
John Keane
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‘Modernity and Expertise: Western Perspectives’, Chinese Social Sciences Today
By JOHN KEANE Some of you will know that in the 19th century, in Europe in the Atlantic region, the “expert” came to mean someone who was a man of knowledge, someone who had a full grasp of the facts of...
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01
September
2022
John Keane
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Metaverse wars
By John Keane War becomes the twin of communication: the development of media has not only changed how warfare is reported, but also how it’s fought. The working rule of the warriors is to spread strategic information and disinformation at every...
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15
June
2022
Thoughts on Uncertainty
Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 1.1 (2022): 1–13 DOI: 10.3366/jspp.2022.0003 © Edinburgh University Press www.euppublishing.com/jspp John Keane Abstract: There is growing agreement among scholars and citizens that our planet and its peoples are presently living through an era of great political uncertainty. Global pestilence,...
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22
February
2022