John Keane

2026-04-30 07:30:21

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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney

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John Keane is co-founder of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN) and Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). His full-scale history of democracy, The Life and Death of Democracy (2009), was short-listed for the 2010 Non-Fiction Prime Minister's Literary Award, and recently ranked (by one of Japan's leading newspapers, Asahi Shimbun) within the top three non-fiction books published in Japan. Korean and Chinese editions have just been published; Spanish and Arabic translations are soon to appear. His more recent books include Democracy and Media Decadence (2013), A Short History of the Future of Elections (2016) and When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter: Rethinking Democracy in China (2017).

Experience

2014–present Professor of Politics and Director, Sydney Democracy Network (SDN)

Education

1977 University of Toronto, PhD (Commonwealth Fellow)
1974 University of Toronto, Master of Arts
1969 University of Adelaide, Bachelor of Arts (Hons)

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