Prof. John Keane
WZB Fellow
Research fields
Democracy | Environmental Politics | Citizenship and Civil Society | Media and Democracy
CV
since 2011
Founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN), University of Sydney
since 2010
Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney
since 2009
Fellow at the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences, Shanghai
since 2008
Research Professorship: "Theory, History and Future of Democracy" at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center
2000/01
Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), London
1999
Karl W. Deutsch Professorship, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
1989
Founder and director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), London
Projects
Past, present and future of communications.
Democracy: 21st-century Perspectives.
Selected Publications
Wzbaktiv
2022
Keane, John (2022): The Shortest History of Democracy. Carlton, VIC: Black Inc,, 240 S.
2021
Chowdhury, Debasish Roy/Keane, John (2021): To Kill A Democracy. India's Passage to Despotism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 320 S.
2020
Keane, John (2020): "Hopes for Civil Society". In: Global Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 1, Article Number 14130.
Keane, John (2020): The New Despotism. Cambridge, MA/London: Harvard University Press.
2019
Keane, John (2019): "Why History Matters for Democracy". In: Democratic Theory, Vol. 6, No. 2, S. 96-110.
Keane, John (2019): "The Territorial Mentality and the Future of Democracy". In: Nadia Urbinati (Ed.): Thinking Democracy Now. Between Innovation and Regression. Annali 2019. Milano: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, S. 153-169.
2018
Keane, John (2018): Power and Humility. Reflections on the Future of Monitory Democracy. Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press, IX, 485 S.
Keane, John (2018): When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter. Rethinking Democracy in China. Singapore u.a.: World Scientific, XVII, 176 S. (first published online 2017)
2017
Feenstra, Ramón A./Tormey, Simon/Casero-Ripollés, Andreu/Keane, John (2017): Refiguring Democracy. The Spanish Political Laboratory. Routledge Studies in Anti-Politics and Democratic CrisisRoutledge, VIII, 120 S.
2016
Keane, John (2016): "Die neuen Despotien. Vorstellungen vom Ende der Demokratie". In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Sonderheft 51"'Demokratie' jenseits des Westens. Theorien, Diskurse, Einstellungen", herausgegeben von Sophia Schubert/Alexander Weiß. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, S. 86-97 (zuerst erschienen in: Merkur, Nr. 789, 2015, S. 18-31).
2015
Keane, John (2015): Monitory Democracy and the Future of Korean Politics. Seoul: Policy Network Press.
2013
Keane, John (2013): Democracy and Media Decadence. Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press, VII, 255 S.