(Yale University Press, 2003)
Shapiro discusses the different answers that have been proposed by the major political theorists in the utilitarian, Marxist, and social contract traditions over the past four centuries. Showing how these political philosophies have all been decisively shaped by the...
In this book Ian Shapiro develops and extends arguments that have established him as one of today’s leading democratic theorists. Shapiro is hardheaded about the realities of politics and power, and the difficulties of fighting injustice and oppression. Yet he makes a compelling case that...
(Princeton University Press, 2003)
Japanese translation forthcoming Keio University Press
Polish translation PWN Polish Scientific Publishers, Warsaw, 2006
Chinese translation (complex characters): Business Week Publishers, 2005
Chinese translation (simple characters): China Renmin University Press...
In the early twenty-first century, courts have become versatile actors in the governance of many constitutional democracies, and judges play a variety of roles in politics and policy making. Assembling papers penned by an array of academic specialists on high courts around the world, and presented...
By selecting and organizing the most important cases of our nation’s history, David O’Brien and new coauthor Gordon Silverstein have managed to make a daunting course manageable for both students and teachers. The inclusion of insightful headnotes and informative special features allows students...
By selecting and organizing the most important cases of our nation’s history, David O’Brien and new coauthor Gordon Silverstein have managed to make a daunting course manageable for both students and teachers. The inclusion of insightful headnotes and informative special features allows students...
The Vietnam War and the Watergate aftermath made it apparent that the increase in executive power which followed World War II needed to be redressed. Congress tried to balance the separation of powers by passing a number of laws that were designed to assert legislative authority in foreign policy....
Winner of the 2010 C. Herman Pritchet Award for the Best Book Published in 2010 in the field of Law and Courts
Judicial and political power are inextricably linked in America, but by the time John Roberts and Samuel Alito joined the Supreme Court, that link seemed more important, more significant,...
Examines the reconstruction of institutional power relationships that had to be negotiated among the courts, the parties, the President, the Congress, and the states in order to accommodate the expansion of national administrative capacities around the turn of the twentieth century.
This...
A powerful dissection of one of the fundamental problems in American governance today: the clash between presidents determined to redirect the nation through ever-tighter control of administration and an executive branch still organized to promote shared interests in steady hands, due deliberation...
