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Prof. John Keane |
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The social sciences deal extensively with the basic questions
surrounding contemporary democracies. What are the shortcomings,
which problems of legitimacy occur and how can one measure and
compare the qualities of democracies? Often, the historical
dimension of current developments does not get the necessary
attention. Therefore this research professorship examines
analytically and empirically the history of democratic ideas and
institutions. It looks back to the Third Century BC, to the
formative elements of democracy (assembly democracy), examines the
late- medieval beginnings of representative democracy, and describes
the development of a new era in complex democracy since 1945 known
as monitory democracy. John Keane is a recurrent research professor at WZB. He is also Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney. |
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