Griffith Review: Edition 24 Participation Society(Review's website here) There is a need for a fundamental revision of the way we think about democracy in our times. An epochal transformation has been taking place in the contours and dynamics of representative democracy. From roughly...
Read MoreThis essay was published in the following publications: -- Evatt Foundation, April 2009. -- On Line Opinion 20 April 2009. -- WZB Mitteilungen Nr. 124, June, 2009. Also click here to view PDF format. -- Read the Spanish translation of the 'Democracy Failure,...
Read MoreEntry in the Encyclopedia of Civil Society, Books Springer Click here to read excerpt in PDF format...
Read MoreChapter in Dispersed Leadership in Democracy: Foundations, Opportunities, Realities, edited by John Kane, Haig Patapan and Paul ‘t Hart Oxford University Press 2009. More about the book here. A full-length Farsi-language translation by Daryoush Poor is available here Read chapter in PDF format...
Read MoreThe Sydney Morning Herald, November 21, 2008 Our world is living through a historic sea-change, away from representative democracy towards a new form of democracy - monitory democracy - defined by mechanisms that scrutinise and monitor power. Monitory democracy is the...
Read MorePresentation for ‘Neglecting Children and Youth: Democracies at Risk’, a seminar held at The University of Sydney, 5 November 2008. -> Read lecture in PDF format -> The article is published as a book chapter in The Golden Chain: Family, Civil Society and...
Read MorePublic Lecture delivered at the School of Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai, 29 October 2008. -> Read lecture in PDF format -> Read Chinese translation of lecture -> Winton Bates, kvd & monitory democracy, by Michael Pascoe in Personal Reflections, July 9, 2012 -> What implications does 'monitory democracy' have...
Read MoreJOHN KEANE CENTRE FOR STUDY OF DEMOCRACY (CSD), UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER Y WISSENSCHAFTSZENTRUM BERLIN (WZB) Traducido por Ramón A. Feenstra Resumen El presente artículo constituye una reflexión sobre el concepto de sociedad civil, centrado en el debate sobre la idoneidad de...
Read MoreComments delivered by John Keane at the Conference ‘Aging, Family, Civil Society, Politics’, Dresden, 1st February 2008. Abstract With life expectancy continuing to rise steadily, questions concerning the social and political conditions of the elderly move to the centre of contemporary democratic...
Read MorePublished in WZB-Mitteilungen n. 120 June 2008 (pp. 30-32). Read the whole magazine here in PDF format...
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