Democracies’ bloody beginnings
Published in the Sydney Ideas Quarterly, December 2009....
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2009
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Front of Mind
The Australian Financial Review Magazine. 11 December 2009 p. 16, Interview by Janne Ryan and photo by Louise Kennerley. PDF...
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2009
Why there’s no instant answer to democracy’s growing crisis
The Sctotsman: 03 December 2009 By CHRISTOPHER MACKIE Click here to read article in scanned PDF format...
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December
2009
John Keane
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The life and times of democracy
An interview with John Keane in The Courier, Dundee, Scotland. 2 December 2009 Click here to read in PDF format...
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December
2009
Charisma, Democracy, History
John Keane interviewed by Paul Kildea for Final draft, Radio 2SER FM, Sydney...
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November
2009
Old Age Without Wretchedness’: Thomas Paine’s Vision of Growing Old
Final Public Lecture, Tom Paine 200 Celebrations, Thetford, 7 November 2009, Norfolk Summary Written during a period when the gap between rich and poor was fast widening in post-Jacobin France, Thomas Paine’s Agrarian Justice opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Monopoly (1795/6)...
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07
November
2009
John Keane
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Otra tesis acerca de la filosofia de la historia
This essay in Spanish appeared in the Revista Encuentros Uruguayos Año II, Número 2, Noviembre 2009, pp. 208-220 In English the text was published in James Tully (ed.), 1988, Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics, Princeton University Press. Chapter...
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02
November
2009
Is Democracy Not For Everyone?
4 October 2009 IQ2 Australian Debate Winston Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried. In western countries like Australia the universal good of democracy is simply assumed. But...
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04
October
2009
Het volk bestaat niet
John Keane leidt het 'Centre for the Study of Democracy' aan de University of Westminster in Londen. Vorige maand verscheen van hem de vuistdikke en ronduit indrukwekkende geschiedenis van de democratie: 'The Life and Death of Democracy'. "Het lijkt zo vanzelfsprekend",...
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September
2009
John Keane
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Will democracy survive?
Democracy did not emerge as an historical inevitability, John Keane tells Peter Clarke Inside Story There are some shocks in John Keane’s latest book, The Life and Death of Democracy. First, he punctures the “democracy started in Athens” myth – “assembly democracy,”...
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September
2009