One of the world's foremost experts on the history of democratic government has delivered a scathing verdict on the Australian election campaign. John Keane is himself an Australian, but over the last three decades has been teaching overseas, with professorships in...
Read MorePublished in The Monthly, July 2010 Last month’s hung election in Britain confirms a basic rule of modern politics: whenever markets fail representative democracy falters. Not just in Britain but throughout the European Union the near-collapse of the credit and banking system is producing...
Read MoreDr. Bridget Cotter interviews John Keane, 9 June - CSD Bulletin, Summer 2010 John Keane discusses the reception of The Life and Death of Democracy in an interview with Bridget Cotter. This interview was published in the CSD Bulletin, Summer, 2010,...
Read MoreBBC Radio 4 History in Our Time - Melvyn Bragg, John Keane, Karen O'Brien, and Richard Bourke discussed the work of the eighteenth-century philosopher, politician and writer Edmund Burke. ...
Read MoreAn English synopsis of the PhD by Ramón Feenstra University Jaume I of Castellon (Spain) January 2010 INTRODUCTION There are essentially two basic reasons for the preeminent position that reflection on civil society has acquired among theorists of democracy today. The first of these is...
Read MoreSydney Morning Herald 26-Apr-2010 Page: 9; This is an edited extract from an essay by John Keane, published in the Griffith Review. PDF...
Read MoreThe Weekend Australian Magazine November 13-14, 2010 PDF...
Read MoreDeze week de vraag of de democratie nog te redden is. Het geloof in politiek en politici lijkt immers niet bepaald toe te nemen. Moeten we, om de belangrijke beslissingen te nemen waar de huidige multi-crisis om vraagt, misschien naar...
Read MoreEn su celebrado libro Life and death of democracy el profesor Keane de la Westminster University afirma que la democracia representativa no nació en Inglaterra sino en las Cortes Leonesas de 1188. El escritor Juan Pedro Aparicio relata el magno...
Read MoreMacmillan, London 2009 ISBN 978-0-230-74408-0 This book review first appeared in International Affairs, Chatham House, March 2010, pp. 16-18 PDF John Keane's review: During the past decade, as ‘democracy promotion’ and military campaigns against enemies dubbed ‘terrorists’ gathered pace, war, violence and democracy...
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