Václav Havel has died aged 75. A poet and playwright, a political writer, dissident and a politician, Havel was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia, and the first President of the Czech Republic founded in 1993. The Conversation spoke with...
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Read MoreAt the Byron Bay Writers Festival, in conversation with Griffith Review Editor Julianne Schultz, Professor John Keane talks us through the rise and fall of democracies and empires, from a primarily historical perspective. Big Ideas (ABC) Original Link here From the very first...
Read MoreDemocracy did not emerge as an historical inevitability, John Keane tells Peter Clarke Inside Story There are some shocks in John Keane’s latest book, The Life and Death of Democracy. First, he punctures the “democracy started in Athens” myth – “assembly democracy,”...
Read MoreWe fight wars to defend it, vote to uphold it and pride ourselves upon it. But what's so good about democracy? In this wide ranging talk, Professor John Keane, author of "The Life and Death of Democracy", discusses the history of...
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 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 MoreQuentin Skinner talks to John Keane about Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the neo-Roman theory of liberty. This is an edited extract from a long interview conducted with him in May 2000 by John Keane and Milton Tosto. This text was published...
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