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Hypocrisy and Democracy - The gap between ideals and perceived reality is widening

Published in WZB-Mitteilungen n. 120 June 2008 (pp. 30-32) the whole Magazine here

   
 

Civil Society and Ageing

Comments delivered at the Conference ‘Aging, Family, Civil Society, Politics’, Dresden, 1st February 2008

   
 

Banyan Democracy

The Indian Express - Published: Wednesday, August 15, 2007

   
 

Does Democracy Have a Violent Heart?

Rough draft comments prepared for the War, Culture and Democracy Project conference, The University of Sydney, 4-6 July 2006.

 

 

 

Democracy, a short history

Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2007. © 1993-2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

   
 

Introduction: Cities and Civil Society

   
 

A European Citizen?

   
 

Por que a democracia?

   
 

Democracy: the Rule of Nobody?

 
 

Journalism and Democracy Across Borders

 

 
 

The Abdicator

 

 
 

Der Elfenbeinturm und die Zivilgesellschaft

[‘The Ivory Tower and Civil Society']'

in Arnd Bauerkaemper (ed.), Die Praxis der Zivilgesellschaft. Akteure, Handeln und Strukturen im internationalen Vergleich (Frankfurt am Main 2003), pp. 383-395

 
 
Cosmocracy
 
 

The Triangle of Violence

 
 

Voting at 16

   
 

Fear and Democracy

   
 

Global Civil Society?

Chapter 2, pp. 23-47, in Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius, and Mary Kaldor (eds.), Global Civil Society 2001, Oxford University Press.

   
  Secularism?
   
  On Communicative Abundance
   
 

Some Reflections On The Good Citizen

   
 

Public Life in the Era of Communicative Abundance

   
 

Towards a Civil Society: Hopes for Polish Democracy:  Interview with Erica Blair (John Keane)

In Michnik, Adam. Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives. Berkeley:  University of California Press pp.: 96-113

   
 

Democracy and the Decline of the Left

Introduction (vii-xxviii) published in Norberto Bobbio, 1997, Democracy and Dictatorship
The Nature and Limits of State Power
, Polity Press.

   
 

Eleven Theses on Communicative Abundance

   
 

Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere

Abstract in HTML - Full text and Farsi Translation in PDF

   
 

Nations, Nationalism, and the European Citizen

   
 

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

Click on on the link "Spanish" to read the spanish translation

   
 

Power-Sharing Islam?

Chapter in Azzam Tamimi (ed.) Power-Sharing Islam? published by Liberty for Muslim World Publications (pp. 15-31)

   
 

Liberty of the Press

Chapter 1, pp. 1-51, in John Keane, The Media and Democracy. Polity Press, 1991.

   
 

Risks and Reversals

From chapter 5 Democracy, Risks, and Reversals: in John Keane, The Media and Democracy. Polity Press, 1991. (pp. 173-82)

   
 

New perspectives on social movements, an interview with Alberto Melucci.

pp. 180-233, in Alberto Melucci, Nomads of the Present - Social Movements and Individual Needs in Contemporary Society, edited by John Keane and Paul Mier.

   
 

The Polish Laboratory

   
 

The Politics of retreat

in The Political Quarterly 61 (3), 340–352.

   
 

More theses on the philosophy of history

   
 
The Modern Democratic Revolution: Reflections on Jean-François Lyotard's La Condition postmoderne
   
 

The Legacy of Max Weber

Chapter 2, pp. 30-69, in John Keane, Public Life and Late Capitalism, Cambridge
University Press, 1984.

   
 

Civil Society and the Peace Movement in Britain

in Thesis Eleven, 1984, 8: 5-22.