Ian Shapiro

Ian Shapiro, Ph.D., Yale University, 1983, J.D., Yale Law School, 1987, is Sterling professor of political science and Henry R. Luce director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, now called the MacMillan Center. His research interests center on sociological aspects of economics and political theory. In particular, he has written extensively on theories of justice, democracy, and resource distribution, and the prospects for sustainable democracy in countries emerging from authoritarian political systems. Shapiro has won several awards and fellowships, including election as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000, the American Philosophical Society in 2008, and the Council on Foreign Relations in 2009. He has also taught at Oxford and the University of Cape Town. He is a native of South Africa.

Shapiro is co-chair of the executive committee of the Future of American Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy."

Works

• “Stagflation and the New Right”. Telos 56 (Summer 1983). New York: Telos Press.
• The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory, Cambridge University Press 1986 ISBN 0-521-32043-7
• Political Criticism, University of California Press 1990 ISBN 0-520-06672-3
• Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory, with Donald Green, Yale University Press 1996 ISBN 0-300-06636-8
• Democracy's Place, Cornell University Press 1996 ISBN 0-8014-3309-6
• Democratic Justice, Yale University Press 1999 ISBN 0-300-07825-0
• The Moral Foundations of Politics, Yale University Press 2003 ISBN 0-300-07907-9
• Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics, with Rogers M Smith and Tarek Masoud, Cambridge University Press 2004 ISBN 0-5218-3174-1
• The State of Democratic Theory, Princeton University Press 2005 ISBN 0-691-12396-9
• The Flight From Reality in the Human Sciences, Princeton University Press 2005 ISBN 0-691-12057-9
• Death By a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth, with Michael J. Graetz, Princeton University Press 2006 ISBN 0-691-12789-1
• Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy Against Global Terror, Princeton University Press 2007 ISBN 0-691-12928-2

External links

• Introduction to The State of Democratic Theory by Ian Shapiro
• Response by Ian Shapiro to critics of Democratic Justice
• "Democracy at Home," an interview with Ian Shapiro
• Ian Shapiro :: The MacMillan Center :: Department of Political Science :: Yale University
• Ian Shapiro | Political Science | Yale University