Berlin 2001 It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) Despotism Many things shall be said for a long...
Read MoreNeglected for a generation, a troublesome political question is back : when should young people be able to vote for candidates in elections? Conservative peer Lord Lucas of Crudwell and Dingwall recently tabled a Private Members Bill in the Lords....
Read MoreChapter 6 - pp. 92-114 - in Geneva Overholser, Kathleen Hall Jamieson (eds.) 2005 - The Press, The Institutions of American Democracy, Oxford University Press After more than half a century [1] , fresh interpretations of the vital importance of journalism...
Read MoreDrawn from lectures originally delivered at the Institute for Management and Planning, Teheran, 5th May 2004 and (in revised form) at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), 14th July 2004. The Sovereign People? Among the most taken-for-granted propositions when discussing democracy...
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Read MoreMention the two words social democracy and most people today think of business-friendly governments, welfare states in far-off Scandinavia and champagne socialists sporting pink shirts. Read full article in PDF format...
Read MoreJohn Keane on WikiLeaks in Die Zeit, 7 October, 2010 Read German article in PDF format...
Read MoreAn interview about 'The Life and Death of Democracy' with 2UE's Cliver Robertson in Sydney To view more interviews and apperances for the launch of the Australian book tour please click here. ...
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 MoreOne of the world's foremost experts on the history of democratic government has delivered a scathing verdict on the Australian election campaign. John Keane is himself an Australian, but over the last three decades has been teaching overseas, with professorships in...
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