Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Politics against Domination
Ian Shapiro
€ 53.25
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Politics against Domination
Hardback. Ian Shapiro makes a compelling case that the purpose of politics should be to combat domination, and he shows what this means in practice at home and abroad. This is a major work of applied political theory, a profound challenge to utopian visions, and a guide to fundamental problems of justice and distribution. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Ian Shapiro makes a compelling case that the purpose of politics should be to combat domination, and he shows what this means in practice at home and abroad. This is a major work of applied political theory, a profound challenge to utopian visions, and a guide to fundamental problems of justice and distribution. Shapiro builds his case from the ground up, but he also spells out its implications for pressing debates about electoral systems, independent courts, money in politics, minimum wages, and the vulnerabilities of minorities. He takes up debates over international institutions and world government, intervention to prevent genocide and ethnic cleansing, and the challenges of fostering democracy abroad. Brutally realistic but also inspiring, Shapiro gleans insights from the battle against slavery, the creation of modern welfare states, civil rights, Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party, the worldwide campaign against sweatshops, and other sources to explain how effective coalitions work and how to press them into the service of combating domination. Politics against Domination ranges over political science, psychology, economics, history, sociology, and law. It will be of interest to veterans of political theory, but Shapiro's lucid and penetrating style makes it readily accessible to newcomers as well.
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
563g
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674743847
SKU
V9780674743847
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Ian Shapiro
Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale, where he directs the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.
Reviews for Politics against Domination
Ian Shapiro has written an exceptional book that brings together political philosophy, empirical political science, political economy, history, occasional natural science, and much else.
Jeffrey Green, University of Pennsylvania As Ian Shapiro says, a polity cannot pursue liberty, equality, or justice until it overcomes domination
and this book provides the best way to think about that crucial step that I know of. It is a fine example of his ability to 'anchor philosophical reflection in real politics, ' thereby showing all of us how to mingle 'ought' with 'can' in the service of human liberation and dignity.
Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University This is a profound and unmatched study of the order and justice of non-domination. Ian Shapiro makes the case that politics
whether domestic or international
should be about saving citizens from hell, not leading them to heaven.
Michael Doyle, Columbia University Offers important insights for thinking about democracy's prospects.
Christopher Hobson Perspectives on Politics (09/01/2017) Shapiro has a brief and compelling section on the importance of hope in his first chapter. This book enacts and encourages hope, with its analytical clarity, deep engagement of complicated political issues that resist easy theorizing, and emphasis on the politically possible.
(08/01/2017) Shapiro's insights are trenchant, especially with regards to the Citizens United decision, and his counsel on how the 'status-quo bias' in national political institutions favors the privileged. After more than a decade of imperial overreach, his restrained account of foreign policy should likewise find support.
(05/26/2016) Ian Shapiro combines erudite, rigorous political theorizing with a public intellectual's ability to canvass and illuminate contemporary domestic and global problems. It's a rare blend, one that makes Politics against Domination a book both for academic syllabi and presidential reading lists. It is a book that has actually changed my mind on how to think about international intervention.
Anne-Marie Slaughter Ian Shapiro has the richest knowledge of contemporary politics across the world and the keenest sense of political reality of any American political theorist. Politics against Domination is his trenchant summary of what he has learnt from more than three decades of strenuous inquiry and hard thought.
John Dunn, University of Cambridge
Jeffrey Green, University of Pennsylvania As Ian Shapiro says, a polity cannot pursue liberty, equality, or justice until it overcomes domination
and this book provides the best way to think about that crucial step that I know of. It is a fine example of his ability to 'anchor philosophical reflection in real politics, ' thereby showing all of us how to mingle 'ought' with 'can' in the service of human liberation and dignity.
Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University This is a profound and unmatched study of the order and justice of non-domination. Ian Shapiro makes the case that politics
whether domestic or international
should be about saving citizens from hell, not leading them to heaven.
Michael Doyle, Columbia University Offers important insights for thinking about democracy's prospects.
Christopher Hobson Perspectives on Politics (09/01/2017) Shapiro has a brief and compelling section on the importance of hope in his first chapter. This book enacts and encourages hope, with its analytical clarity, deep engagement of complicated political issues that resist easy theorizing, and emphasis on the politically possible.
(08/01/2017) Shapiro's insights are trenchant, especially with regards to the Citizens United decision, and his counsel on how the 'status-quo bias' in national political institutions favors the privileged. After more than a decade of imperial overreach, his restrained account of foreign policy should likewise find support.
(05/26/2016) Ian Shapiro combines erudite, rigorous political theorizing with a public intellectual's ability to canvass and illuminate contemporary domestic and global problems. It's a rare blend, one that makes Politics against Domination a book both for academic syllabi and presidential reading lists. It is a book that has actually changed my mind on how to think about international intervention.
Anne-Marie Slaughter Ian Shapiro has the richest knowledge of contemporary politics across the world and the keenest sense of political reality of any American political theorist. Politics against Domination is his trenchant summary of what he has learnt from more than three decades of strenuous inquiry and hard thought.
John Dunn, University of Cambridge