Democracy: much more than pressing buttons and ticking boxes on ballot papers
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Read MoreABC 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...
Read More'Why the Regression? A Global Perspective', speech delivered to the International Forum on Democracy: the Case of Mexico, Mexico City, 30 March 2023. ...
Read MoreCGTN 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 ...
Read MoreA 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...
Read More‘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] ...
Read MoreBy 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...
Read More'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...
Read MorePublished in Polish in money.pl (13 October 2022) [gview file="http://www.johnkeane.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/John_Keane_Money.pl_.pdf"] ...
Read MoreWatch 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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