Professor John Keane visited UIN Jakarta and gave a lecture on Humility and Democracy at two places, CSIS and UIN Jakarta, 29 June 2006. Keane's lecture in CSIS was attended by Dr. AS. Hikam, who read Keane's books when Hikam studied...
Read MorePlenary session addressed by Professor John Keane during the Symposium : "Democracy: Contested Futures" 23 March 2004 at the Centre for Democracy Studies, Oxford Brookes University. The Centre ran a one-day symposium which looked at some the contemporary challenges and issues related...
Read MoreOrigins Democracy commonly refers to a type of political system in which the people or their representatives lawfully govern themselves, rather than being governed, say, by a military dictatorship, totalitarian party or monarch. In recent decades, democracy in this sense has...
Read MoreSystematic reflection on the transition to democracy - on the problem of how democratic institutions can be built and sustained - came relatively late in the history of democracy. Beginning with Plato, Thucydides and others, intellectual energy was mostly invested...
Read MoreThe Times Higher Education Supplement, 4/11/2005 Cambridge University, Press, 305pp, £45.00 and £16.99. Systematic reflection on the transition to democracy - on the problem of how democratic institutions can be built and sustained - came relatively late in the history of democracy....
Read MoreProfessor Keane was invited by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy: Taiwan Thinktank to deliver a lecture on "The Challenge to Democratic Consolidation" in May 31, 2005 , and discussed the relevance and future of democracy in Taiwan. Read below some excerpts...
Read MoreProfessor Keane talks at Taiwan Thinktank of "the Challenge to Democratic Consolidation" and discusses the relevance and future of democracy in Taiwan. Taiwan Think Tank, Taipei, 31 May 2005. Read the talk in Chinese in PDF ...
Read MoreBhikhu Parekh talks to John Keane about the Westminster model, the reform of the House of the Lords, and what he has learned since becoming a peer. This interview was conducted on 26 April 2005 and it was published in...
Read MoreOn the Need for New Thinking about an Aging Ideal A revised and expanded version of the B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies , Delhi, 25 February 2005 The Democracy Thing From the sun-scorched vineyards of Kandahar...
Read MoreArticle in Grial, Revista Galega De Cultura, Número 167 Julio/agosto/septiembre 2005 View and read Spanish PDF format...
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