The Sydney Morning Herald, July 24, 2006 Disillusionment is becoming the predominant "D" word in the face of political parties' stranglehold on representation, writes John Keane. The world's democracies, Australia included, are sleepwalking their way into deep trouble. Despite everything they have...
Read MorePublished in David Pritchard (ed.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens. Talk delivered at the conference WAR, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY IN CLASSICAL ATHENS, 4-6 July 2006, University of Sydney. Click here to read PDF format Click here to read the Epilogue in...
Read MorePublished in David Pritchard (ed.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens. Talk delivered at the conference War, Culture and Democracy in Classical Athens, 4-6 July 2006, University of Sydney. Watch Videos Here Click here to read PDF format ->Read a review of...
Read MoreIn John Keane (Editor), 2006, Civil Society: Berlin Perspectives, Oxford / New York, Berghahn Books Sanctuaries of Freedom Among the sadly neglected themes within recent research on civil societies is their intimate connection with urban life. Its absence from the literature on...
Read MoreOrigins Democracy commonly refers to a type of political system in which the people or their representatives lawfully govern themselves, rather than being governed, say, by a military dictatorship, totalitarian party or monarch. In recent decades, democracy in this sense has...
Read MoreSystematic reflection on the transition to democracy - on the problem of how democratic institutions can be built and sustained - came relatively late in the history of democracy. Beginning with Plato, Thucydides and others, intellectual energy was mostly invested...
Read MoreThe Times Higher Education Supplement, 4/11/2005 Cambridge University, Press, 305pp, £45.00 and £16.99. Systematic reflection on the transition to democracy - on the problem of how democratic institutions can be built and sustained - came relatively late in the history of democracy....
Read MoreBhikhu Parekh talks to John Keane about the Westminster model, the reform of the House of the Lords, and what he has learned since becoming a peer. This interview was conducted on 26 April 2005 and it was published in...
Read MoreArticle in Grial, Revista Galega De Cultura, Número 167 Julio/agosto/septiembre 2005 View and read Spanish PDF format...
Read MoreSince new citizens cannot be created all at once, you must begin by making use of those who exist, and to offer a new path for their hopes is the way to make them want to follow it…...
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