{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"2.10 Monitory democracy with Professor John Keane","description":"Welcome to episode 10 of Season 2 of&amp;nbsp;Real Democracy Now! a podcast. Today my guest is Professor John Keane. &amp;nbsp; John is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. He is also the co-founder and director of the Sydney Democracy Network. He is renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy and is the author of the Life and Death of Democracy&amp;nbsp;as well writing \u2018Democracy Field Notes\u2019 for the Conversation. &amp;nbsp; Today I talk with Professor Keane about his book&amp;nbsp;The Life and Death of Democracy and in particular the concept of&amp;nbsp;\u2018monitory democracy' which he develops in this book based on over 10 years empirical research into the history and practices of democracy.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Thank you for joining me today. In next week\u2019s episode you\u2019ll be hearing from a range of my guests, answering the question \u2018if you could change one thing about democracy what would it be?\u2019 I hope you\u2019ll join me then. ","author_name":"Real Democracy Now! a podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.realdemocracynow.com.au","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5377755\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/f0112c\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/5377755"}