Chapter in Dispersed Leadership in Democracy: Foundations, Opportunities, Realities, edited by John Kane, Haig Patapan and Paul ‘t Hart Oxford University Press 2009. More about the book here. A full-length Farsi-language translation by Daryoush Poor is available here Read chapter in PDF format...
Read MoreThe Sydney Morning Herald, November 21, 2008 Our world is living through a historic sea-change, away from representative democracy towards a new form of democracy - monitory democracy - defined by mechanisms that scrutinise and monitor power. Monitory democracy is the...
Read MorePublic Lecture delivered at the School of Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai, 29 October 2008. -> Read lecture in PDF format -> Read Chinese translation of lecture -> Winton Bates, kvd & monitory democracy, by Michael Pascoe in Personal Reflections, July 9, 2012 -> What implications does 'monitory democracy' have...
Read MorePublished in WZB-Mitteilungen n. 120 June 2008 (pp. 30-32). Read the whole magazine here in PDF format...
Read MoreSummary: On the 7th of November, AKU-ISMC hosted a lunch-hour seminar entitled: The strange origins of representative democracy, led by John Keane, Professor of Politics at the University of Westminter and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). During the seminar, Keane explored the...
Read MoreListen to Audio Sydney Democracy Forum. Thursday 11 October 2007. 6.30 pm. The Twenty-First Century Enemies of Democracy. Venue: Footbridge Theatre, Parramatta Road, University of Sydney. Summary: Among the striking new developments of our times is the reappearance of an old problem with...
Read MoreBy John Keane, The Indian Express Published: Wednesday 15 August 2077 'Written for the special edition of one of India' leading daily newspapers, the Indian Express, on the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Indian republic' With its deep roots, many trunks...
Read MoreConferência Gulbenkian Que valores para este tempo? - 27 October 2006. Read lecture in PDF format...
Read MoreThe Sydney Morning Herald, July 24, 2006 Disillusionment is becoming the predominant "D" word in the face of political parties' stranglehold on representation, writes John Keane. The world's democracies, Australia included, are sleepwalking their way into deep trouble. Despite everything they have...
Read MoreProfessor John Keane returned to the University of Sydney stage to deliver the Sydney Ideas public lecture entitled 'What's Happening to Democracy?'. 24 July 2006. Abstract: Just over a decade ago, talk of the global triumph of democracy beamed around the...
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