Essays and Articles

Democracy Failure

This essays was published by the Evatt Foundation, April 2009 (here); by On Line Opinion 20 April 2009, (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.

Once tesis sobre el mercado y la sociedad civil

Recerca, Revista de Pensamenti I Analisi num. 8. 2008; pp. 11-25. Traducido por Ramón A. Feenstra

A European Citizen? (German translation)

Leicht überarbeitete und übersetzte Version eines Vortrages am Zentrum für Niederlande-Studien der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 8. Januar 2008 - for the English version of this essay click here

Hypocrisy and Democracy - The gap between ideals and perceived reality is widening

Published in WZB-Mitteilungen n. 120 June 2008 (pp. 30-32); the whole Magazine here

Civil Society and Ageing

Nova Acta Leopoldina NF 99, Nr. 36 (2008) with Zusammenfassung

Banyan Democracy

The Indian Express - Published: Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Voting at 16

See also the text of Children and Civil Society, a seminar held at the University of Sydney, 5 November 2008. PDF here

Fear and Democracy

Global Civil Society?

From Helmut Anheier, Marlies Glasius, and Mary Kaldor (eds.), Global Civil Society 2001, Oxford University Press. Chapter 2, pp. 23-47

Some Reflections On The Good Citizen

Towards a Civil Society: Hopes for Polish Democracy:  Interview with Erica Blair (John Keane)

In Adam Michnik, Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives. Berkeley:  University of California Press pp.: 96-113

Eleven Theses on Communicative Abundance

Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere

Abstract in HTML - Full text and Farsi Translation in PDF

Stretching the Limits of Democratic Imagination,

Chapter appeared in Joseph H. Carens, Democracy and Possessive Individualism. The Intellectual Legacy of C.B.Macpherson, 1993, pp. 105-135

Nations, Nationalism, and the European Citizen

Dictatorship and the Decline of
Parliament
Carl Schmitt's Theory of Political Sovereignty

Click on on the link "Spanish" to read the spanish translation

Power-Sharing Islam?

Chapter in Azzam Tamimi (ed.) Power-Sharing Islam? published by Liberty for Muslim World Publications (pp. 15-31)

Liberty of the Press

From John Keane, The Media and Democracy. Polity Press, 1991. Chapter 1, pp. 1-51

Risks and Reversals

From in John Keane, The Media and Democracy. Polity Press, 1991. Chapter 5 pp. 173-82

New perspectives on social movements, an interview with Alberto Melucci.

pp. 180-233, From Alberto Melucci, Nomads of the Present - Social Movements and Individual Needs in Contemporary Society, edited by John Keane and Paul Mier.

The Polish Laboratory

The Politics of retreat

From The Political Quarterly 61 (3), 340–352.

Democracy and the Decline of the Left

From Norberto Bobbio, 1989, Democracy and Dictatorship. The Nature and Limits of State Power, Polity Press. Introduction (vii-xxviii)

More Theses on the Philosophy of History

From James Tully (ed.), 1988, Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics, Princeton University Press. Chapter 12, pp. 204-17. Read this essay in Spanish as appeared in the Revista Encuentros Uruguayos Año II, Número 2, Noviembre 2009, pp. 208-220 Otras tesis acerca de la filosofía de la historia, download it here

The Legacy of Max Weber

From John Keane, Public Life and Late Capitalism, Cambridge University Press, 1984. Chapter 2, pp. 30-69,

Civil Society and the Peace Movement in Britain

From Thesis Eleven, 1984, 8: 5-22.