The Moral Foundations of Politics (The Yale ISPS series) Book

When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro investigates this political dilemma, evaluating answers that have been proposed in the utilitarian, Marxist, social contract, anti-Enlightenment, and democratic traditions.â??In The Moral Foundations of Politics, Shapiro reaffirms his place as one of the very clearest and most resolute, and most solidly grounded, practitioners in the political theory field in this generation.â?â??Adolph Reed, Jr., New School for Social Research â??Blending sophisticated political science (including insightful rational choice calculations) with clarity that makes the bookâ??s subject accessible to neophytes, Professor Shapiro distills centuries of political theory into a slender volume.â?â??Harvard Law Reviewâ??A deeply valuable book at many levels. Shapiro shows an almost unique ability to combine the broad sweep with the telling detail or precise insightâ??just what a book of this sort needs.â?â??Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard Universityâ?¢ The Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University SeriesIan Shapiro is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor and chairman of the department of political science at Yale University. Among his books are Democratic Justice and, with Donald Green, Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory, both published by Yale University Press.Read More