Readings on the Moral Foundations of Politics

by Ian Shapiro (Editor)

467 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center at Yale University. He is known primarily for interventions in debates on democracy and on methods of conducting social science research. In democratic theory, he 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. 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.

Reviews

[Vinícius Godoy · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting collection of classic and more contemporary texts on political philosophy that very pertinently accompanies Professos Shapiro's course on the Coursera platform.