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John Keane

Born in southern Australia and educated at the Universities of Adelaide, Toronto and Cambridge, John Keane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). In 1989 he founded the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) in London. In recent years, he has held the Karl Deutsch Professorship in Berlin, co-directed a large-scale European Commission-funded project on the future of civil society and citizenship, and served as a Fellow of the London-based think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He recently held a Major Research Fellowship awarded by the Leverhulme Trust and is a Fellow of the Fudan... Read full bio

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Unforgettable book
Waterford News & Star, August 25, 2010
...Fear Rua’s website on the internet.Recently, when I saw the rave review of the book on John Keane, which he headlined as “The Unconquerable Keane” – “Unforgettable Book”, I felt his claim that this was one of the best sport books ever written...
Top intellect returns to Sydney
Central Sydney, July 22, 2010
...One of Australia’s greatest intellectual exports has returned to take a position at the University of Sydney. John Keane - voted by The Times as one of Britain’s leading political thinkers and writers, whose work has “worldwide importance”, has...
Literary prize outlasts the PM
Melbourne Age, July 15, 2010
...Places - Will Elliott ? The Colony - Grace Karskens ? The Life and Death of Democracy - John Keane ? The Blue Plateau - Mark Tredinnick ? The Ghost at the Wedding - Shirley Walker Young adult fiction ? Stolen - Lucy Christopher ? The Winds of Heaven...
SA authors vie for $100,000 book prize
NEWS.com.au, July 15, 2010
...Elliott The Colony: A History of Early Sydney by Grace Karskens The Life and Death of Democracy by John Keane The Blue Plateau: A Landscape Memoir by Mark Tredinnick The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker Young Adult Fiction Stolen by Lucy...
The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism
Market Oracle, July 13, 2010
...10. 26. See, especially John Dewey, "The Public and Its Problems," (New York: Swallow Press, 1954). 27. John Keane, "Journalism and Democracy Across Borders," in Geneva Overholser and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, eds. The Press: The Institutions of American...
Biography of Hurling Legend, John Keane
Hoganstand.com, May 19, 2010
...The President of the GAA, Christy Cooney, will launch a major new biography of the legendary Waterford hurler, John Keane, on Saturday 5 June 2010. The launch will take place in the club house of the Mount Sion hurling and football club, Rathfadden,...
Misreadings
Martin In The Margins, January 1, 2010
...the members ' of Commons' . I had a similar experience recently with the biography of another eighteenth-century political figure: John Keane's life of Tom Paine, in which the author insists on writing about Paine's childhood in ' Norfolk County', as if...
John Keane, The Life and Death of Democracy
Muhlberger's Early History, December 18, 2009
...up a while ago. Here's my review, exclusive to this site. Uneven but provocative A review of John Keane, The Life and Death of Democracy John Keane ends his massive history of democracy with a chapter called New Democratic Rules, in which he discusses...
“A dose of libertarianism would enhance our democracy” — and if my aunt had balls, she’d be my uncle.
slackbastard, October 19, 2009
...Democracy | The Australian Centre For Fraternalism, Secret Societies and Mateship | The Life and Death of Democracy , John Keane, 2009 | The Society of the Different: Part 1: The Center of the World , Interview with Gustavo Esteva (September 6/7, 2005),...