to be.". The article states that "monitory democracy can function only if it learns to co-exist with some of those democratic ideas that Keane is too quick to dismiss...". Similarly, the Telegraph stated "What Keane himself fails to see is that the 'monitory democracy' he celebrates, while it may cut through some hierarchies of power, is busily constructing new hierarchies of its own: an activist elite; human rights judges who act beyond the reach of democratic politics; and so on.". References External links John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy Video: John Keane in conversation, Melbourne Writers Festival 2009 1949 births Academics of the University of Westminster Living people Australian political philosophers British political philosophers