Is democracy a universal ideal?
Conferência Gulbenkian Que valores para este tempo? - 27 October 2006. Read lecture in PDF format...
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27
October
2006
Democracy in the 21st Century
Democracies in name, but not in the real game
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...
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26
July
2006
John Keane
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What’s happening to democracy?
Professor John Keane returned to the University of Sydney stage to deliver the Sydney Ideas public lecture entitled 'What's Happening to Democracy?'. 24 July 2006. Abstract: Just over a decade ago, talk of the global triumph of democracy beamed around the...
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24
July
2006
What’s happening to democracy?
Professor John Keane returned to the University of Sydney stage to deliver the Sydney Ideas public lecture entitled 'What's Happening to Democracy?'. 24 July 2006. Abstract: Just over a decade ago, talk of the global triumph of democracy beamed around the...
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24
July
2006
John Keane
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Does Democracy Have a Violent Heart?
Published 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...
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06
July
2006
John Keane
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Does democracy have a violent heart?
Published 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...
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06
July
2006
John Keane
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Does Democracy have a violent heart?
Talk delivered at the conference WAR, CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY IN CLASSICAL ATHENS, 4-6 July 2006, University of Sydney. Read, Watch and listen to John Keane presenting his talk click for Text here. Watch Part 1 [vc_video link='https://youtu.be/uA-imIC6YFY'] Watch Part 2 [vc_video link='https://youtu.be/DUxVF2pEJ6U'] Watch...
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04
July
2006
Humility and Democracy: a History of the Invention of Democratic Institutions
Professor John Keane visited UIN Jakarta and gave a lecture on Humility and Democracy at two places, CSIS and UIN Jakarta, 29 June 2006. Keane's lecture in CSIS was attended by Dr. AS. Hikam, who read Keane's books when Hikam studied...
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20
June
2006
John Keane
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Transitions to Democracy
Plenary session addressed by Professor John Keane during the Symposium : "Democracy: Contested Futures" 23 March 2004 at the Centre for Democracy Studies, Oxford Brookes University. The Centre ran a one-day symposium which looked at some the contemporary challenges and issues related...
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23
March
2006
John Keane
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Democracy – A Short History
Origins 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...
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18
January
2006