The Sydney Morning Herald, November 21, 2008 Our world is living through a historic sea-change, away from representative democracy towards a new form of democracy - monitory democracy - defined by mechanisms that scrutinise and monitor power. Monitory democracy is the...
Read MorePresentation for ‘Neglecting Children and Youth: Democracies at Risk’, a seminar held at The University of Sydney, 5 November 2008. -> Read lecture in PDF format -> The article is published as a book chapter in The Golden Chain: Family, Civil Society and...
Read MorePublic Lecture delivered at the School of Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai, 29 October 2008. -> Read lecture in PDF format -> Read Chinese translation of lecture -> Winton Bates, kvd & monitory democracy, by Michael Pascoe in Personal Reflections, July 9, 2012 -> What implications does 'monitory democracy' have...
Read MoreJOHN KEANE CENTRE FOR STUDY OF DEMOCRACY (CSD), UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER Y WISSENSCHAFTSZENTRUM BERLIN (WZB) Traducido por Ramón A. Feenstra Resumen El presente artículo constituye una reflexión sobre el concepto de sociedad civil, centrado en el debate sobre la idoneidad de...
Read MoreTuesday 29 April 2008 Time: 6:30-8pm Venue: London School of Economics, Old Theatre, Old Building Speakers: David Goodhart, Professor John Keane, Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh Chair: Professor Lord Tony Giddens At this event, John Keane with David Goodhart (editor of Prospect) discussed Lord Bhikhu Parekh’s...
Read MoreJohn Keane, Ruth Kinna, (Senior Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University) and Peter Marshall (philosopher and historian), talk of ANARCHISM with Melvyn Bragg (BBC Radio4 December, 7, 2006) Anarchism Pierre Joseph Proudhon famously declared “property is theft”. And perhaps more surprisingly that...
Read MoreComments delivered by John Keane at the Conference ‘Aging, Family, Civil Society, Politics’, Dresden, 1st February 2008. Abstract With life expectancy continuing to rise steadily, questions concerning the social and political conditions of the elderly move to the centre of contemporary democratic...
Read MoreDan Carrier meets political historian John Keane, whose biography of Tom Paine looks set to become a great motion picture epic. SIR Richard Attenborough liked the book so much that as soon as he finished it, he contacted the author...
Read MorePublished in WZB-Mitteilungen n. 120 June 2008 (pp. 30-32). Read the whole magazine here in PDF format...
Read MoreLeicht überarbeitete und übersetzte Version eines Vortrages am Zentrum für Niederlande-Studien der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 8. Januar 2008. PDF...
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