A television interview with ABC Weekend Breakfast, 21 July 2018 ...
Read MoreThe Crisis of Western Democracy? A Survey of Recent Literature and Debates in the United States and Europe A public lecture by John Keane delivered at the Academic Report Hall (1st floor), Science Hall, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, on...
Read MoreThis book review was published in Australian Foreign Affairs in July 2018 View PDF here ...
Read MoreDuring the past year, Australia has been caught up in heated public controversies about the emergence of China as a global power. In dialogue with Qianni Wang, a prominent Chinese journalist, John Keane reflects on the sources and significance of...
Read MoreWhen Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter: Rethinking Democracy in China Predictions of an imminent collapse of Chinese politics are today commonplace. However, Australian Professor John Keane explores a radically different alternative in his thought-provoking book When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter: Rethinking Democracy...
Read MoreThe Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney welcomed John Keane, Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney, to discuss his new book When trees fall, monkeys scatter (World Scientific, 2017). In the global China debate, When trees...
Read MoreJohn Keane, University of Sydney During the past year, The Conversation and the Sydney Democracy Network, a global partnership of researchers, journalists, activists, policymakers and citizens concerned with the future of democracy, have published a lengthy series of scholarly reflections on...
Read MorePolitical scientist and author John Keane on the recent proliferation of corrupt political regimes that employ democratic rhetoric, staged elections, social media and economic growth to cultivate public loyalty and give the appearance of legitimacy. Presented by Peter Mares. "These rulers...
Read MoreSunday 11 June 2017 10:30AM IMAGE: HOW WELL IS OUR DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEM SET UP FOR THE FUTURE? (LINK TO LARGER IMAGE. / Flickr CC BY 2.0) It’s been four years since we last spoke with leading democracy scholar John Keane. Back then he...
Read MoreWith the likes of Pablo Iglesias and Ada Colau coming to power in Spain, we are witnessing the rise of the ‘post-representatives’. Barcelona En Comú/flickr, CC BY-SA Ramón Andrés Feenstra, Universitat Jaume I; Andreu Casero-Ripolles, Universitat Jaume I; John Keane, University of...
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