Ian Shapiro (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut)

Submitted: Thurs, 21 August 2003


Ian Shapiro
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
Chair, Department of Political Science 
Yale University
124 Prospect Street, Room 105
New Haven, Connecticut  06520-8301  USA

phone:   (203) 432-5238
e-mail:  ian.shapiro@yale.edu


Web: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ianshap/



Former Director of the Program of Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale.

Education: Ph.D., Yale University, 1983, J.D., Yale Law School, 1987. 

His research interests include the methodologies of the social sciences,
theories of justice and democracy, the relations between democracy and the
distribution of income and wealth, and the prospects for sustainable democracy
in the post-communist world and sub-Saharan Africa. 

Shapiro is author of The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory; Political
Criticism;  Democracy's Place; Democratic Justice; The Moral Foundations of
Politics; and, The State of Democratic Theory; and co-author of 
Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory  (with Donald Green). He served as 
editor of NOMOS from 1992-2000, has edited numerous other collections, and has 
edited the Cambridge University Press series on Contemporary Political Theory 
since 1998. 

Shapiro was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in
2000, and has been a Fellow of the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim
Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo
Alto. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cape Town and
Nuffield College, Oxford.

Selected Publications on African Politics:

    * "Democratic innovation: South Africa in comparative context," World 
Politics, Vol. 46, No. 1 (October 1993), pp. 121-50. Review Essay.

    * "Letter from South Africa," Dissent (Spring 1994), pp. 171-77.

    * "Harnessing the profit motive: Education and housing in the new South 
Africa." Paper For the Conference on South Africa in Transition, The 
Holiday Inn, Cape Town, South Africa, August 15-17, 1994, with Nicoli 
Nattrass.

    * "South Africa's negotiated transition: Democracy, opposition, and the 
new constitutional order," with Courtney Jung. Politics and Society, Vol. 
23, No. 3 (September 1995), pp. 269-308.

    * "South Africa's negotiated transition: Democracy and opposition in 
comparative perspective," with Courtney Jung. Conference paper presented at 
Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 
December 1994; Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne, 
Australia, March 1995; New York Law School, February 1996; Tel Aviv 
University, Department of Political Science, March 1996; New York 
University, Department of Political Science, May 1996.

    * "South African democracy revisited: A reply to Koelble and Reynolds," 
with Courtney Jung. Politics and Society, Vol. 24, No 3 (September 1996), 
pp. 237-47.

    * "On the Normalization of South African Politics," Dissent (January 
1999), pp. 28-33.

    * "Problems and Prospects for Democratic Settlements: South Africa as a 
Model for the Middle East and Northern Ireland?" (August 2003) with 
Courtney Jung & Ellen Lust-Okar.