Odds & Ends

 

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Here you can find extra material that did not find space in the final version of the book.
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. Click here to download the text
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 (here), by On Line Opinion 20 April 2009, (here); by Webdiary (here); and by WZB Mitteilungen Nr. 124, June, 2009 (here). Read the Spanish translation of the 'Democracy Failure', here - 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)	download text here
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)	download full text here click here to enlarge the picture
Campfire democracy?	download text here
Democracies bloody beginnings published in the Sydney Ideas Quarterly, December 2009.	read it here
Democracy in the 21st Century: Global Questions	read it here
Time and Democracy	read it here

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