Democracy: much more than pressing buttons and ticking boxes on ballot papers
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18
April
2023
Topics of Interest
America, America: John Keane’s contribution to an ABC Radio National debate about the dangers of despotism in the US and its declining empire
ABC Big Ideas - The state of America, broadcasted on Tue 11 Apr 2023 at 8:00pm The rise of far-right extremism, conflicts over gun law reform, widening economic gaps, and former President Donald Trump's continued push for influence. Are polarising polemics...
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11
April
2023
Why the Regression? A Global Perspective’, speech delivered to the International Forum on Democracy
'Why the Regression? A Global Perspective', speech delivered to the International Forum on Democracy: the Case of Mexico, Mexico City, 30 March 2023. ...
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30
March
2023
CGTN video series on democracy in the 21st century, with Wang Zhongyuan
CGTN video series on democracy in the 21st century, with Wang Zhongyuan (Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Shanghai), March 2023 Technology a double-edged sword to democracy Modern democracy and its alienation ...
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25
March
2023
People power? – A reply to James Miller
A reductionist definition of democracy as ‘people power’ fails to grasp democracy’s political evolution as guarantee against tyranny. Giving a voice to the biosphere extends this principle and is not to negate democracy’s own conditions. I thank James Miller for his commentary on...
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21
March
2023
‘Brunch With Ludwig Wittgenstein’, ABC Radio
‘Brunch With Ludwig Wittgenstein’, ABC Radio (recorded 8th March 2023) [audio mp3="http://www.johnkeane.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Brunch-With-Ludwig-Wittgenstein.mp3"][/audio] ...
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08
March
2023
A Terrible War of Attrition: Perils of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
By John Keane, originally published on Substack The following comments on the Ukraine-Russia war are my replies to questions submitted in advance by Money FM 89.3, Singapore’s flagship 24-hour radio station, for an interview with Breakfast presenter Lynlee Foo, 24th February...
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24
February
2023
How democracies die, fast and slow
'How Democracies Die, Fast and Slow', Eurozine (Vienna), 21 February 2023 Related posts: Bloodless democracy? A response to John Keane by James Miller, Eurozine (Vienna), 28 February 2023 http://www.johnkeane.net/people-power-a-reply-to-james-miller/ A Spanish translation of 'How Democracies Die, Fast and Slow' Letras libres (May 2023) Sudden death...
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21
February
2023
The greatest threat to democracy is rulers who are blind fools
Published in Polish in money.pl (13 October 2022) [gview file="http://www.johnkeane.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/John_Keane_Money.pl_.pdf"] ...
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13
October
2022
‘West’s liberal democracy not universal’, China Daily
Watch the video here as China Daily reporter Ian Goodrum talks about issues of democracy with John Keane, a professor of politics at the University of Sydney. What's his take on Chinese democracy and its practices? How does it differ from...
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06
September
2022