Within public life in many Western countries, the words ‘politics’ (zhèngzhì), ‘political’ and ‘political life’ (zhèngzhì yóuxì) are today proving to be deeply controversial. They are often reckoned to be dirty words, synonyms for corrupt government, lying politicians and unpopular...
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 More27 June 2018 The Life and Death of Democracy is a book by John Keane and published in 2009. Vida y muerte de la democracia, a Spanish language edition of the book has recently been published by FONDO DE CULTURA ECONÓMICA (FCE). The book launch event was broadcast live...
Read MoreCo-hosted by the Sydney Democracy Network, China Studies Centre and the China Development Society at the University of Sydney Predictions of the coming collapse of Chinese politics are today commonplace, however this talk explores a radically different alternative. China, it argues,...
Read MoreCo-hosted by Sydney Ideas, the Post-Truth Initiative and the Sydney Democracy Network This is part of the Festival of Democracy 2017 There are many signs we’ve entered a ‘post-truth’ era defined by the burial of ‘objective facts’ thanks to a public avalanche of ‘appeals to emotion...
Read MoreWhat can Americans learn from China about democracy? With Professor John Keane. We're at the Australian Leadership Retreat with the ADC Forum. #adcforum #ALR2017 Originally published on Facebook...
Read MoreQ1: Interview with John Keane from CISS University of Sydney on Vimeo. ABOUT Q3 SYMPOSIUM When The third annual Q Symposium of the Centre for International Security Studies, ‘Peace and Security in a Quantum Age: Moment, Matter, Mind and Metaphysics’, was held 11-13 February...
Read MoreThe New Despotism of the 21st Century: Imagining the End of Democracy A lecture at the University of Castellon, Spain, March 25 2015 ...
Read MoreThe following remarks on the future of elections sketch the ambitious scope of an exciting Sydney/Berlin research project launched last week at the the University of Sydney We live in times shaped by the conviction that periodic ‘free and fair’ elections...
Read MoreIn the lead up to this year's Festival of Democracy, we wandered the University of Sydney campus asking people to share their thoughts on the big 'D' word...
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