Neglected 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 MoreListen to Audio [audio mp3="http://www.johnkeane.net/wp-content/uploads/2002/07/p02q5p61-iotp_20020704-0900a.mp3"][/audio] John Keane with Bernard Williams and Annabel Brett , talks of Freedom - July, 4, 2002. FREEDOM Freedom and slavery are mental states Mahatma Gandhi Freedom has been a subject of enquiry for philosophers, theologians and politicians who have attempted to...
Read MoreThis article by John Keane was published in the New Statesman - Thursday 23rd May 2002 Shortly after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, George Orwell wrote : ‘The great age of democracy and of national self-determination was the age of...
Read MoreCentre for the Study of Democracy September 2002 Who does the governing in today’s world? Through which institutions do they govern, in the sense that their decisions structure and confine the fields of judgement and action of actors within global civil society,...
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