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...
Read MoreIn 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...
Read MoreAn 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...
Read MoreJohn 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...
Read MoreChapter appeared in Joseph H. Carens, Democracy and Possessive Individualism. The Intellectual Legacy of C.B.Macpherson, 1993, pp. 105-135 PDF...
Read MoreThe 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,...
Read MoreAn 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...
Read MoreNew 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...
Read MoreFrom The Political Quarterly1990, 61 (3), 340–352. Please click here to read scanned except in PDF format...
Read MoreFrom Norberto Bobbio, 1989, Democracy and Dictatorship. The Nature and Limits of State Power, Polity Press. Introduction (vii-xxviii) Read Introduction (vii-xxviii) published in Norberto Bobbio, 1997 in PDF format...
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