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. He has also taught at Oxford and the University of Cape Town. [cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/polisci/people/ishapiro.html|title=Yale University Political Science: Ian Shapiro|date=2006-10-31|accessdate=2007-06-08|publisher=Yale University] Shapiro writes in an energetic style that has been criticized for "its confrontational tone." [cite web|url=http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~rnau/choice/choice10.pdf|title=Duke Fuqua School of Business: Ph.D. Seminar on Choice Theory|author=Robert Nau|date=Fall, 2004|accessdate=2007-06-08|quote=But the 1994 book by Green and Shapiro ["Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory"] raised rational choice bashing to a new level...(Indeed much of the uproar surrounding the book seems to have been motivated as much by its confrontational tone as by its substance.)]

Shapiro was to have received the 2006 Sidney Hillman award for his most recent book, "Death By A Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth", but the award was revoked at the last minute due to allegations that Shapiro had intimidated graduate assistants during a union campaign at Yale in 1995, which an administrative court later found to be an illegal partial strike. The Hillman award is sponsored by a labor union, UNITE-HERE, that is the parent organization of the Graduate Employees and Students Organization (GESO), which represents clerical and technical workers at Yale. Shapiro expressed regret over the withdrawal of the award and noted that the administrative law judge dismissed claims against Yale stemming from the 1995 strike, so the allegations against him were never adjudicated. A GESO spokesman said that his organization did not urge the withdrawal of the award, but he criticized what he called the "extremity" of Shapiro's actions during and after the strike. [cite web|url=http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/17680|title=Group revokes prize for two Yale professors|author=Jessica Marsden|publisher="Yale Daily News"|date=2006-05-31|accessdate=2007-06-08]

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." [cite web|url=http://thefutureofamericandemocracyfoundation.org/BioNG.html|title=The Future of American Democracy Foundation: Foundation Officers|date=2006|accessdate=2007-06-08]

Works

*"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

Notes

External links

* [http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/i7672.html Introduction to "The State of Democratic Theory" by Ian Shapiro]
* [http://pantheon.yale.edu/%7Eianshap/Shapiro%20Reply%20Democrstic%20Justice.pdf Response by Ian Shapiro to critics of "Democratic Justice"]
* [http://thepolitic.org/content/view/76/38/ "Democracy at Home," an interview with Ian Shapiro]