Professor John Keane, Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney, completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Adelaide, his MA and his Ph.D. at Toronto University. He has a particular interest in theories of democracy and political representation, and he is renowned globally for his contributions to democratic thought. He is the author of many books including “Whatever Happened to Democracy (2002)”, “Global Civil Society (2003)”, “Violence and Democracy (2004)”, “ e Life and Death of Democracy (2009)”, “Democracy and Media Decadence (2013)”, “Re guring Democracy:  e Spanish Political Laboratory (2017)” and “ e New Despotism (2020)”. Many of his books have been translated into Turkish, including “Civil Society and the State” (Ayrıntı Yayınları), “ e Media and Democracy” (Ayrıntı Yayınları), “Violence and Democracy” (İmge Yayınevi) and “ e New Despotism” (İletişim Yayınları). He has contributed to  e New York Times, Al Jazeera, the Times Literary Supplement,  e Guardian, Harper’s, the South China Morning Post and  e Hu ngton Post. He was recently nominated for the 2021 Balzan Prize and the Holberg Prize for outstanding global contributions to the human sciences.