John Keane is Director of the newly-founded Sydney Democracy Network (SDN) at the University of Sydney and Professor of Politics at the WZB in Berlin. He is the author of Democracy and Media Decadence (2013) and his The Life and Death of Democracy (2009) has just appeared in Japanese translation.
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Published in: HomeUnderstanding the Chinese Communist Party: a conversation with Yu KepingThe challenges of changing a revolutionary party into a ruling party, as seen by no new Martin Luther, but a modernist.
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Published in: HomeTwo bob each way on democracy: book reviewThe author of The Life and Death of Democracy reviews The Confidence Trap: A history of democracy in crisis from World War 1 to the present by David Runciman (Princeton, 2013).
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Published in: HomeAt a knife’s edge: elections and democracy in ThailandThe Kingdom of Thailand, and the wider region in which it stands, resembles a global political laboratory. It is a 21st-century testing ground, a place where the future of democracy is being decided, slowly but surely. So watch what happens there, carefully.
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Published in: HomeLou Reed: Rock ‘n Roll democracyHe sang of dirt, all the while insisting that life is love, a feeling so important that anyone with a heart wouldn't ever turn around and break the heart of others.
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Published in: HomeCities in the future of democracyToday’s cities perch people far off the ground. They block sight of the stars. So we’re faced with a completely different task: re-embedding our cities into our biosphere. Interview.
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Published in: HomeA short history of banks and democracyThe extraordinary bounce-back of the banks reveals the most disturbing, but least obvious, largely invisible, feature of the unfinished European crisis: the transformation of democratic taxation states into post-democratic banking states.