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39
Citations
12878
World Ranking
522
National Ranking
290

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1988 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Ian Shapiro is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences. Their research spans political science, sociology, and economics, with a particular focus on electoral systems, constitutional law, social policy, and political movements.

Their work explores topics such as:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Media Influence and Politics

Shapiro has published research in a diverse range of venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • npj Digital Medicine
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • AJOG Global Reports
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers by Shapiro and their collaborators include:

  • "Large-scale Training of Foundation Models for Wearable Biosignals," 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Pulse oximetry values from 33,080 participants in the Apple Heart & Movement Study," 2023, npj Digital Medicine
  • "Understanding activity and physiology at scale: The Apple Heart & Movement Study," 2024, npj Digital Medicine
  • "Trends in sensor-based health metrics during and after pregnancy: descriptive data from the apple women's health study," 2024, AJOG Global Reports
  • "On Fertile Ground: How Racial Resentment Primes White Americans to Believe Fraud Accusations," 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators of Shapiro include:

  • Michael J. Graetz
  • Christian Cox
  • Kevin Morris
  • Calum A. MacRae
  • Jane Calvert

Shapiro has also produced several book publications primarily with New York University Press eBooks. Notable books include:

  • "Ethnicity and Group Rights," 2020
  • "Designing Democratic Institutions," 2022
  • "Political Contingency," 2020
  • "The Rule of Law," 2020
  • "Democratic Community," 2020
  • "Divide and Deal," 2020

Other book works include titles published by Yale University Press such as "Selected Writings of Thomas Paine" (2020) and by Yale School of Management eBooks with "Colombia: Works for Taxes" (2020).

Ian Shapiro's contributions to academia have been recognized through awards including Fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1988).

Best Publications

  • Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science

    Donald P. Green;Ian Shapiro

  • The State of Democratic Theory

    Ian Shapiro

  • The flight from reality in the human sciences

    Ian Shapiro

  • Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics, or What's Wrong with Political Science and What to Do About it

    Ian Shapiro

  • Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

    John Locke;Ian Shapiro

  • Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth

    Michael J. Graetz;Ian Shapiro

  • The evolution of rights in liberal theory

    Ian Shapiro

  • Democracy's place

    Ian Shapiro

  • The moral foundations of politics

    Ian Shapiro

  • Order, conflict, and violence

    Stathis N. Kalyvas;Ian Shapiro;Tarek E. Masoud

  • The democracy sourcebook

    Robert Alan Dahl;Ian Shapiro;José Antônio Cheibub

  • Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics: Problems, methods, and theories in the study of politics, or: what's wrong with political science and what to do about it

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  • The political writings

    John Dewey;Debra Morris;Ian Shapiro

  • Democracy's Edges

    Ian Shapiro;Casiano Hacker-Cordón

  • South Africa's Negotiated Transition: Democracy, Opposition, and the New Constitutional Order:

    Courtney Jung;Ian Shapiro

  • Ethnicity and Group Rights: Nomos XXXIX

    Ian Shapiro;Will Kymlicka

  • Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics

    Ian Shapiro;Rogers M. Smith;Tarek E. Masoud

  • Identities, Affiliations and Allegiances

    Seyla Benhabib;Ian Shapiro;Danilo Petranović

  • On Non-domination†

    Ian Shapiro

  • Democracy's Value

    Ian Shapiro;Casiano Hacker-cordón

  • Ethnicity and group rights

    Ian Shapiro;Will Kymlicka

  • Rethinking political institutions : the art of the state

    Ian Shapiro;Stephen Skowronek;Daniel Galvin

  • The Difference that Realism Makes: Social Science and the Politics of Consent:

    Ian Shapiro;Alexander Wendt

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald P. Green
Donald P. Green Columbia University
Stathis N. Kalyvas
Stathis N. Kalyvas University of Oxford
Robert A. Dahl
Robert A. Dahl Yale University
Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib Columbia University
Rogers M. Smith
Rogers M. Smith University of Pennsylvania
José Antonio Cheibub
José Antonio Cheibub University of Pittsburgh
Will Kymlicka
Will Kymlicka Queen's University
John Dewey
John Dewey Columbia University
John Locke
John Locke City University of New York

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