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. Beginning with Plato, Thucydides and others, intellectual energy was mostly invested...
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 MoreInterview published by Istanbul's main newspaper,Sabah, 25 September 2005 Medya ve Demokrasi kitabinin yazari Prof. Dr. John Keane bir dizi konferans için geldigi Türkiye'de demokrasinin pek çok sartinin yerine getirildigini söylüyor. Keane kullanilmasi gereken kavramin 'Türkiyeli' oldugunu da savunuyor. Demokrasi arastirmalari...
Read More(Interview with John Keane published by Taipei Times, 2, June, 2005. Page 2) Democracy is an extraordinary invention and viewing it from a humble perspective is an innovative way to safeguard existing democracies, a visiting academic from the UK said yesterday. John Keane,...
Read MoreBorn in Australia and educated at the Universities of Adelaide, Toronto and Cambridge, John Keane is now professor of politics at the University of Westminster in England and is also the founder of the center for the Study of Democracy....
Read MoreProfessor Keane was invited by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy: Taiwan Thinktank to deliver a lecture on "The Challenge to Democratic Consolidation" in May 31, 2005 , and discussed the relevance and future of democracy in Taiwan. Read below some excerpts...
Read MoreProfessor Keane talks at Taiwan Thinktank of "the Challenge to Democratic Consolidation" and discusses the relevance and future of democracy in Taiwan. Taiwan Think Tank, Taipei, 31 May 2005. Read the talk in Chinese in PDF ...
Read MoreBhikhu Parekh talks to John Keane about the Westminster model, the reform of the House of the Lords, and what he has learned since becoming a peer. This interview was conducted on 26 April 2005 and it was published in...
Read More(Interview with John Keane published by the Times of India , the 12th of March 2005) The case of democracy is a case of unfulfilled expectations. Timely elections have become a ritual, yet the system does not deliver on expectations. This is true....
Read MoreInterview with John Keane published by the Indian Express , the 5th of March 2005 The question is: What is so good about democracy? This deserves urgent revisiting, argues John Keane, professor of Politics at the University of Westminster, because in our...
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