John Keane is co-founder of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN) and Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). His full-scale history of democracy, The Life and Death of Democracy (2009), was short-listed for the 2010 Non-Fiction Prime Minister’s Literary Award, and recently ranked (by one of Japan's leading newspapers, Asahi Shimbun) within the top three non-fiction books published during 2013 in Japan. His new book, Democracy and Media Decadence has just been published.
Money, Capitalism and the Slow Death of Social Democracy
May 17, 2016 16:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The following thoughts on money, markets, capitalism and the future of democratic politics were prepared for the Come Clean public forum, to be held in the New South Wales Parliament on June 2nd 2016. Sponsored by the John...
The 18th-Century Enlightenment and the Problem of Public Misery
Apr 10, 2016 00:21 am UTC| Life
Many people today think of the 18th-century Enlightenment as an exciting season of reason, a black swan moment when new energies flowed, when the early modern world began to be turned upside down, thanks to the fearless...
Mar 19, 2016 12:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
During recent weeks, as election fever grows more intense, all American democrats have been handed a bouquet of viperous questions: When does public incitement to violence by a candidate for high office legitimately...
Cities as Democratic Laboratories: the case of Seoul
Dec 23, 2015 22:15 pm UTC| Politics
The following field note on cities as democratic laboratories was inspired by a recent visit to the Republic of Korea. The highlight of my journey was an afternoon meeting and press conference with Park Won-Soon, Mayor of...
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