The Life And Death of Democracy a book by John Keane


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Here you can find extra material that did not find space in the final version of the book.

Restorative Justice

Rethinking the history of the impact of representative democracy upon Indigenous peoples.

Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2012.


Nahum Capen

Nahum Capen, author of The History of Democracy

 

Nahum Capen, aged around 65, author of The History of Democracy: or, Political Progress, Historically Illustrated, from the Earliest to the Latest Periods, Volume 1 (1874)

 

 


 

The Tao people of Orchid Island, dressed as ‘radioactive people’

 

Taiwan

For reasons of space, the following fragment on the remarkable birth of democracy in Taiwan had to be excluded from the final printed version of The Life and Death of Democracy.

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Running the ‘Machine’, an 1864 satirical cartoon, probably by John Cameron.

Democracy Failure

This essays (full pdf here) was published by the Evatt Foundation, April 2009, by On Line Opinion 20 April 2009, (here); by Webdiary (here); and by WZB Mitteilungen Nr. 124, June, 2009. Read the Spanish translation of the 'Democracy Failure'- A version of the Spanish text has appeared in the Catalan magazine l'Espill 31 (2009) click here.

 


Monitory democracy and media-saturated societies

Griffith Review: Edition 24 Participation Society 2009 (Review's website here)

 

 

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The Constitutional Law of Dreros

The Constitutional Law of Dreros

Dreros, a small ancient city in eastern Crete, is perhaps best known among contemporary classicists as the place where the earliest surviving Greek law on stone was carved. The constitutional law is of great historical significance, if only because it provides archaeological evidence of the existence within the classical Greek world of non-Athenian experiments in government by assembly. (Click here to read the full text)

 

 

 

 

 

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Campfire democracy?

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Democracies bloody beginnings

published in the Sydney Ideas Quarterly, December 2009.

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Democracy in the 21st Century: Global Questions

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Time and Democracy
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