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| Born | September 29, 1956 Johannesburg, South Africa |
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Ian Shapiro (born September 29, 1956) is an American legal scholar and political scientist who serves as the Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He served as the Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center at Yale University from 2004 to 2019. He is known primarily for interventions in debates on democracy and on methods of conducting social science research.[1]
In democratic theory, Shapiro has argued that democracy's value comes primarily from its potential to limit domination rather than, as is conventionally assumed, from its operation as a system of participation, representation, or preference aggregation.[2] In debates about social scientific methods, he is chiefly known for rejecting prevalent theory-driven and method-driven approaches in favor of starting with a problem and then devising suitable methods to study it.[3] His most recent work, coauthored with Michael J. Graetz, Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It, proposes achievable policies and strategies to mitigate economic insecurity in the United States.[4]
- ^ "Ian Shapiro appointed Sterling Professor of Political Science". Yale Bulletin and Calendar. 33 (29). Yale University. Archived from the original on 12 July 2010. Retrieved 9 May 2012.
- ^ Young, Iris (2002). "Books in Review: Ian Shapiro's Democratic Justice". The Good Society. 11 (2): 76–77. doi:10.1353/gso.2002.0038. S2CID 143830085.
- ^ Friedman, Jeffrey, ed. (1996). The Rational Choice Controversy: economic models of politics reconsidered. Yale University Press. pp. 4. ISBN 0300068212.
- ^ Graetz, Michael J.; Shapiro, Ian (2020). The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674980884.