Ian Shapiro

"Response by Ian Shapiro to critics of Democratic Justice"

"An enduring embarrassment of democratic theory is that it seems impotent when faced with questions about its own scope."

"Although this is less often commented on in the academic literature, democracy is as much about opposition to the arbitrary exercise of power as it is about collective self-government...."

"The further institutional designers try to move along the continuum toward explicit proactive systems that force integration in exclusionary and racist societies, the more they will learn about how mu…"

"So Sen is right that democracy can be pressed into the service of reducing injustice. Indeed this can happen against expectations. Had there been neoclassical economists around in the late eighteenth …"

"First let me persuade you of my metaphysics and epistemology, then my theory of science, then my ethics and social theory, and then having done all that, I will convince you of my political theory. Ov…"

"No conception of democracy as geared toward reducing domination can ignore the relations between the political system and the distribution of income and wealth."

"A principled commitment to democracy offers a way out of this bind which protagonists on both sides of the debate appear not to have noticed."