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Petro-Democracy?

We respect others' thought as a matter of principle. I believe that if I have the freedom to disagree with others then others have the freedom to disagree with me, and that dialogue will resolve the issue.___________________________________________ An interview with Grand...

30 December 2003

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The Abdicator

On The Retirement of Václav Havel from Political Life (Published in Czech in Lidové noviny, Prague, 1 February 2003) In recent weeks, here on the western shores of Europe, foreign news desks have been reporting that the Czech polity is having trouble...

19 January 2003

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Secularism?

In David Marquand and Ronald L. Nettler (eds) Religion and Democracy, pp. 5–19. 2000, Oxford: Blackwell Publisher. Series: Political Quarterly Special Issues. 100 years ago, secular liberals thought religion would gradually recede from the public sphere and become an exclusively private...

26 January 2000

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Keeping Tabs on Power

An interview with John Keane, from CSD Bulletin Volume 7 No. 1, Winter 1999-2000 The following interview, originally conducted for the CSD Bulletin Volume 7 No. 1, Winter 1999-2000 , provides an introduction to John Keane's life and writings.) By Patrick Burke...

15 November 1999

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On the road to Utopia?

John Keane interviews Francis Fukuyama and asks him if the wake proved premature. Source: 'The Weekend Review', The Independent, June 19, 1999 The 'end of history' made a star of Francis Fukuyama. John Keane meets him to ask if the wake proved premature. History...

19 June 1999

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Stretching the limits of Democratic Imagination

Chapter appeared in Joseph H. Carens, Democracy and Possessive Individualism. The Intellectual Legacy of C.B.Macpherson, 1993, pp. 105-135 PDF...

14 January 1993

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Dictatorship and the Decline of Parliament: Carl Schmitt’s Theory of Political Sovereignty

The Age of Liberalism The Spiritual Crisis of Parliament The Total State First Principles of Parliament? Pre-liberal Parliaments Par1iarnentary Government as Utopia Reforming Parliament Dictatorship and Parliament Parliament and Socialism Notes Nowadays the representative system is associated with the republican form of state. But originally it arose in monarchies,...

11 January 1993

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New perspectives on social movements

An interview with Alberto Melucci, 1991, pp. 180-233, From Alberto Melucci, Nomads of the Present - Social Movements and Individual Needs in Contemporary Society, edited by John Keane and Paul Mier. Click here to read excerpt scanned in PDF format...

08 January 1991

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The Polish Laboratory

New Left Review I/179, January/February 1990 pp. 103-110 Warsaw. Wednesday December 7th. The eighth anniversary of martial law approaches. Foul-smelling fog blankets the city. The battered Russian-made taxi which fetches me from the airport clatters down potholed roads. Rows of grey apartment...

07 January 1990