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Order, Conflict, and Violence

Cambridge University Press, 2008

There might appear to be little that binds the study of order and the study of violence and conflict. Bloodshed in its multiple forms is often seen as something separate from and unrelated to the domains of 'normal' politics that constitute what we think of as order. But violence is used to create order, to maintain it, and to uphold it in the face of challenges. This volume demonstrates the myriad ways in which order and violence are ...

The Rule of Law: Nomos XXXVI (American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy)
Ian Shapiro

NYU Press, 1995

From the sprawling remnants of the Soviet empire to the southern tip of Africa, attempts are underway to replace arbitrary political regimes with governments constrained by the rule of law. This ideal which subordinates the wills of individuals, social movements--and even, sometimes, democratically elected majorities--to the requirements of law, is here explored by leading legal and political thinkers. Part I of The Rule of Law examines the ...

The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences

3 reviews
Ian Shapiro

Princeton University Press, 2007

fall into reality
Shapiro's book is an excellent overview on the major trends in US regarding methodology in social science. This book's aim is to stress the importance of not ignoring the reality and empirical evidence when producing the theories in social science. Shapiro dared to say what majority of students think and this book can serve as a starting point for everyone who is starting PhD research and it is ...

Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror

3 reviews
Ian Shapiro

Princeton University Press, 2008

Viable Alternative
Shapiro presents a rational, concise, and morally consistent alternative to Bush's foreign doctrine of aggression and the Democrat's barren response. Supported by illustrations of former foreign policy successes and blunders, his proposal to rekindle the Cold War strategy of containment to fit a post 9-11 environment is apt and well worth consideration. Moreover, his prose, sprinkled with wit ...

The Democracy Sourcebook

2 reviews

The MIT Press, 2003

Good sourcebook on democracy
This edited work, "The Democracy Sourcebook," is a good reference source for differing perspectives on democracy. The volume provides historical context as well as more contemporary reflections on the subject. The editors, Robert Dahl, Ian Shapiro, and Jose Antonio Cheibub, have done their work well in assembling this set of readings in one book. Any edited volume is going to have some ...

Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen

NYU Press, 2007

View the Table of Contents Read the Introduction ?Clear, jargon-free writing prevails throughout the volume. The authors are leaders in their respective fields of inquiry, yet each of them writes not to a narrow group of specialists but to the intelligent reading public.? ?Elisabeth Ellis, author of Kant's Politics: Provisional Theory for an Uncertain World History is replete with instances of what might, or might not, have been. By ...

Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State
Ian Shapiro, Stephen Skowronek, ...

NYU Press, 2007

View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction . Institutions shape every dimension of politics. This volume collects original essays on how such institutions are formed, operated, and changed, both in theory and in practice. Ranging across formal institutions of government such as legislatures, courts, and bureaucracies and intermediary institutions such as labor unions and party systems, the contributors show how these instruments of ...

Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science

4 reviews
Donald Green, Ian Shapiro

Yale University Press, 1996

A Must Read for All Political Scientists
Whether you are a hard-core believer in RC theory or the most outspoken opponent of it, Green and Shapiro provide a provactive, well-researched examination of the ability of rational choice theory to explain political behavior. While decidedly anti-RC in their discussions, it is of immense value to those of us who favor rational choice theory as well. We need to face the facts (occasionally!) ...

Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth

12 reviews
Michael J. Graetz, Ian Shapiro

Princeton University Press, 2006

Explains what happened & why
As its subtitle indicates, the book is about the nitty-gritty details of how the near-repeal of the estate tax got enacted into law. The authors discuss tax policy only tangentially: their focus is on who did what and why. Some actors on both sides acted out of idealistic (or, if you prefer, ideological) motives, many out of self-interested motives. According to the book, the pro-repeal forces ...

Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke, Ian Shapiro

Topeka Bindery, 2003

Two of Locke's most mature and influential political writings and three brilliant interpretive essays have been combined here in one volume. Among the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" and "A Letter Concerning Toleration" remain vital to political debates more than three centuries after they were written. The complete texts are accompanied by interpretive essays by ...

Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions, 1965-2000

Hackett Publishing Company, 2001

Shapiro has updated his 1995 edition to include the latest US Supreme Court cases on abortion. The court cases are presented in edited form for use in the undergraduate and graduate classroom in a variety of disciplines. Shapiro provides a lengthy introduction to elucidate the complexities of this controversial issue.

Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Where do political identities come from, how do they change over time, and what is their impact on political life? This book explores these and related questions in a globalizing world where the nation state is being transformed, definitions of citizenship are evolving in unprecedented ways, and people's interests and identities are taking on new local, regional, transnational, cosmopolitan, and even imperial configurations. Pre-eminent scholars ...

Theory and Practice: Nomos XXXVII (Nomos)
Ian Shapiro, Judith Wagner Decew

NYU Press, 1996

"An impressive collection of essays on a central problem of political theory. I recommend it highly." ?Jeffrey C. Isaac, Indiana University With 16 original essays all published here for the first time, Theory and Practice focuses on the relationship between philosophical tradition and everyday life in the Western tradition. In this comprehensive volume, Ian Shapiro and Judith Wagner DeCew have gathered contributions from some of the most ...

Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics

Cambridge University Press, 2004

In this volume some of the world's most prominent scholars of politics offer original discussions exploring what political science is and how political scientists should aspire to do their work. Although beset by constant debate about method, at the core of the study of politics is the unifying concern as to whether political scientists should view themselves primarily as scientists, or, instead, try to focus their knowledge on resolving the ...

The Moral Foundations of Politics (The Institution for Social and Policy St)

2 reviews
Ian Shapiro

Yale University Press, 2004

Buy this
I have to say in all honesty that of the hundreds of political science books I've read in my life, this little number is one of the best. Shapiro is so fair, so sharp, so insightful, so spot on with his evaluations, and amazingly, so concise and thorough at the same time, that I think it is a shame this book hasn't made a bigger splash. It manages at the same time to be a great introduction to ...

Divide and Deal: The Politics of Distribution in Democracies
Ian Shapiro, Peter Swenson, ...

NYU Press, 2008

Why are democracies so unequal? Despite the widespread expectation that democracy, via expansion of the franchise, would lead to redistribution in favor of the masses, in reality majorities regularly lose out in democracies. Taking a broad view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of wealth, risk, status, and well-being, this volume explores how institutions, individuals, and coalitions contribute to the often surprising twists and ...

The State of Democratic Theory
Ian Shapiro

Princeton University Press, 2005

What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory , Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications for policy and political action. Some accounts of democracy's purposes focus on aggregating preferences; others deal with collective deliberation ...

Das Kapital
Karl Marx

Easton Press, 1992

2 volume set bound in leather.

Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions, 1965-2007

Hackett Pub Co, 2008

Updated to include the 2007 decision Gonzales v. Carhart , this volume provides all of the major Supreme Court decisions on abortion - as well as many majority, dissenting, and plurality opinions - carefully edited for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in a variety of disciplines. In his introductory essay, Shapiro sets these cases in political, historical, and philosophical context, and gives the reader a sense of what the main ...

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