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Sep 29, 1956 Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa 67 years old
American political theorist
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About Ian Shapiro
- Ian Shapiro (born September 28, 1956) 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.
