John Keane: The Life and Death of Democracy

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http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2010/08/31/2997466.htm

At the Byron Bay Writers Festival, in conversation with Griffith Review Editor Julianne Schultz, Professor John Keane talks us through the rise and fall of democracies and empires, from a primarily historical perspective.

From the very first Platonic democracy of Ancient Greece, Keane argues, through the ages of the civil rights movement, apartheid, the women's vote, through to the world's first black president, the institution of Democracy