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DepartmentYale Political Science

UniversityYale

FieldPolitical Science

ORCID0000-0001-6587-1294

Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications168

Citations15,405

h-index50 · Scholar

Citations per year in post366.8

Years in post42 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count141 of 168

Share84%

Positions

Professor of Global Affairs2019–

Professor, Yale School of Management2013–

Sterling Professor of Political Science, Yale…2005–

Henry R. Luce Director, The MacMillan Center2004–2019

Professor (Adjunct) Yale Law School2004–

William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Political…2000–2005

Director, Program in Ethics, Politics, and Ec…2000–2001

Chairman, Yale University, Department of Poli…1999–2004

and 5 more

Top venues 62 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 54 more hold at least one.

Political Theory6

Polis The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman…4

Politics & Society4

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews3

Dissent3

DOXA Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho3

New York University Press eBooks3

PS Political Science & Politics3

Publications per year

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Citations per year

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Publications 168 works

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Year	Title	Venue	Kind	Citations
1994	Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory: A Critique of Applications in Political Science	Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews	book	4,313
2009	The State of Democratic Theory	Princeton University Press eBooks	book	1,388
1999	Democratic Justice	—	book	841
2002	Problems, methods, and theories in the study of politics, or: What’s wrong with Political Science and what to do about it	Political Theory	article	666
2005	The Flight From Reality in the Human Sciences	Foreign Affairs	book	657
2005	Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth	—	book	463
1996	Democracy’s Place	Medical Entomology and Zoology	book	398
1986	The Evolution of Rights in Liberal Theory	—	book	373
2003	The Moral Foundations of Politics	Choice Reviews Online	book	356
2003	The democracy sourcebook	The MIT Press eBooks	book	323
2018	Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself	—	book	273
1995	South Africa’s negotiated transition: Democracy, opposition, and the new constitutional order	Politics & Society	article	270
2008	Order, conflict, and violence	—	book	265
2016	Politics Against Domination	Harvard University Press eBooks	book	233
2012	On non-domination	University of Toronto Law Journal	article	233
2023	Political Criticism	—	book	217
2002	Optimal deliberation?	Journal of Political Philosophy	article	209
1997	NOMOS IXL: Ethnicity and Group Rights	—	edited volume	193
2007	Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances	—	edited volume	183
2006	Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State	—	edited volume	175
2009	Political Representation	—	edited volume	166
1996	Democratic autonomy and religious freedom: a critique of Wisconsin v. Yoder	New York University Press eBooks	article	163
1992	The difference that realism makes: Social science and the politics of consent	Politics & Society	article	152
2002	Why the poor don’t soak the rich: Notes on democracy and distribution	Daedalus	article	132
2007	Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror	Choice Reviews Online	book	118
2017	Collusion in restraint of democracy: Against political deliberation	Daedalus	article	98
1994	NOMOS XXXVI: The Rule of Law	New York University Press eBooks	edited volume	94
2007	Political Contingency: Studying the Unexpected, the Accidental, and the Unforeseen	—	edited volume	87
1994	Three ways to be a democrat	Political Theory	article	83
2011	The Real World of Democratic Theory	Princeton University Press eBooks	book	79
1995	Pathologies revisited: Reflections on our critics	Critical Review	article	79
1997	Ethnicity and Group Rights: Nomos XXXIX	New York University Press eBooks	book	78
1993	The Political Writings	Medical Entomology and Zoology	edited volume	77
2006	On the second edition of Lukes’s third face	Political Studies Review	article	66
2006	Public opinion and the push to repeal the estate tax	National Tax Journal	article	66
2000	NOMOS XLII: Designing Democratic Institutions	Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)	edited volume	66
1991	Resources, capacities, and ownership: the workmanship ideal and distributive justice	Political Theory	article	65
1982	Realism in the study of the history of ideas	History of Political Thought	article	64
2005	Problems and prospects for democratic settlements: South Africa as a model for the middle east and northern Ireland?	Politics & Society	article	63
1990	Political Criticism	—	book	63
1989	Gross concepts in political argument	Political Theory	article	61
1987	Richard Posner’s praxis	The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University)	article	52
1996	Elements of democratic justice	Political Theory	article	50
1993	NOMOS XXXV: Democratic Community	—	edited volume	48
1999	Democracy’s Value	—	edited volume	46
1996	NOMOS XXXVIII: Political Order	—	edited volume	44
2014	Transforming Power Relationships: Leadership, Risk, and Hope	American Political Science Review	article	42
2019	Bretton Woods Agreements	—	book	41
1990	The Nature of Contemporary Political Science: A Roundtable Discussion	PS Political Science & Politics	article	39
2003	A Letter Concerning Toleration and Two Treatises of Government	—	edited volume	38
2018	Morální základy politiky	—	book	37
2011	After Apartheid: Reinventing South Africa	—	edited volume	37
1995	Theory and practice	—	book	36
2003	Art of Creation, The Founding of the United Nations: A Story of Super Powers, Secret Agents, Wartime Allies and Enemies and Their Quest for a Peaceful World	Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews	book	35
2006	Evolusi Hak dalam Teori Liberal	—	article	34
1999	Democracy’s Edges	—	edited volume	34
1999	Rational Choice	Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag eBooks	book	33
2020	The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It	eYLS (Yale Law School)	book	30
2008	Divide and Deal: The Politics of Distribution in Democracies	—	edited volume	30
1998	NOMOS XL: Integrity and Conscience	—	edited volume	30
1997	Group aspirations and democratic politics	Constellations	article	30
1995	Choix Rationnels et Politique: Pourquoi en Savons-Nous Toujours Aussi Peu?	Revue française de science politique	article	30
2011	La teoría de la democracia en el mundo real	Marcial Pons, ediciones jurídicas y sociales eBooks	book	28
2002	Teorie demokracie dnes	—	article	28
2009	The Federalist Papers: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay	—	book	27
2008	El derecho constitucional del aborto en los Estados Unidos: una introducción	DOXA Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho	article	24
1998	Can the rational choice approach cope with culture?	PS Political Science & Politics	article	22
2014	Selected Writings of Thomas Paine	—	edited volume	21
2005	The State of Democratic Theory: A Reply to James Fishkin	Critical Review of International Social and Political Philo…	article	21
1996	South African democracy revisited: A reply to Koelble and Reynolds	Politics & Society	article	19
2016	Against Impartiality.	The Journal of Politics	article	18
2008	Order, conflict, and violence	—	book	18
1995	Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions	DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library)	edited volume	18
2001	Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions, 1965-2000	—	book	17
1994	La politica explicada por la teoria de la eleccion racional ¿Por que es tan poco lo que esta teoria nos ha ensenado?	DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)	article	17
2009	Reflections on Skinner and Pettit	Hobbes Studies	article	16
2007	Symposium: Understanding Suicide Terror	Perspectives on Politics	article	16
1981	Fiscal crisis of the Polish state: genesis of the 1980 strikes	Theory and Society	article	16
2007	Ian Shapiro	Perspectives on Politics	article	15
1999	Global Justice	—	book	15
2014	Charter of the United Nations: together with scholarly commentaries and essential historical documents	—	book	14
2003	The Democracy Sourcebook	The MIT Press eBooks	edited volume	14
1990	J.G.A. Pocock’s republicanism and political theory: A critique and reinterpretation	Critical Review	article	14
2014	On Non-Domination’(2012)	University of Toronto Law Journal	article	13
1999	Enough of Deliberation: Politics Is about Interests and Power.‖ In Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement, edited by Stephen Macedo, 28–38	RePEc: Research Papers in Economics	book	13
2014	Democracy Man. The life and work of Robert A. Dahl	—	article	12
2000	Teoria da escolha racional e ciência política: um encontro com poucos frutos	Perspectivas: Revista de Ciências Sociais	article	12
1999	Global Justice	Foreign Affairs	article	10
1988	Power, Inequality, and Democratic Politics	Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews	edited volume	10
2004	Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics	Cambridge University Press eBooks	edited volume	9
1997	Elementos de la justicia democrática	DOXA Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho	article	9
1992	Democracy and civil society	Polis The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Tho…	article	9
1983	Stagflation and the New Right	Telos	article	9
2024	Uncommon Sense	—	book	8
1999	On the Normalization of South African Politics	Dissent	article	7
1999	HACKER-CORDÓN. Democracy’s Edges	—	book	7
2017	Charter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents	—	book	6
2008	Order, Conflict, and Violence	—	edited volume	6
1995	?Por que han sido tan poco esclarecedoras las explicaciones de lo politico en terminos de eleccion racional?	Espacio Tiempo y Forma Serie I Prehistoria y Arqueología	article	6
1995	NOMOS XXXVII: Theory and Practice	Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)	edited volume	6
2023	The new authoritarianism in public choice	Political Studies	article	5
2019	Australia’s Full Employment Proposals at Bretton Woods: A Road Only Partly Taken	—	book	5
2018	Responsible Parties	Yale University Press eBooks	book	5
2012	Sobre la no-dominación	DOXA Cuadernos de Filosofía del Derecho	article	5
2011	Book Review of Amartya Sen’s The Idea of Justice	—	article	5
2011	The Burkean Outlook	—	article	5
2006	Evolusi hak dalam teori liberal / Ian Shapiro; Penerjemah: Masri Maris	—	article	5
2000	An open letter to the APSA leadership and members	—	article	5
1994	Rational choice explanations of politics: Why has so little been learned?	Polis The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Tho…	article	5
1994	Vvedenie v tipologiyu liberalizma	Polis The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Tho…	article	5
2008	Tyranny and Democracy: Reflections on Some Recent Literature	Government and Opposition	article	4
2006	Notes on the political psychology of redistribution	Social research	article	4
2003	The Democracy Sourcebook	The MIT Press eBooks	book	4
—	Will Kymlicka, eds (1997) Ethnicity and Group Rights	—	book	4
2014	Rational Choice: Eine Kritik am Beispiel von Anwendungen in der Politischen Wissenschaft. Übersetzung aus dem Amerikanischen von Annette Schmitt	—	book	3
2013	Still Speaking in a Judicial Voice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Two Decades Later	The Yale Law Journal	article	3
2010	Leviathan	—	edited volume	3
2004	La justice démocratique : deux dimensions	Raisons politiques	article	3
1995	Teoria Della Scelta Razionale e Scienza Politica: Un Incontro Con Pochi Frutti?	Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienz…	article	3
1994	Letter from South Africa	Dissent	article	3
2019	Basic Documents in World Politics	—	book	2
2006	The Flight From Reality: A Response to Gunnell, Hardin, Shapiro, and Laitin	The Good Society	article	2
2004	Ethnicity and Group Rights	—	book	2
2002	Revisiting Democratic Justice: A reply to critics	The Good Society	article	2
1997	The Rights of Minority Cultures	—	book	2
1993	The Third Wave: Democratization in the late twentieth century	World Politics	article	2
1991	Impressions from the Soviet Union	Dissent	article	2
1975	Universe: an open or closed case.	Technology Review	article	2
2026	Incumbent policy strategy and the value of winning	Economics of Governance	article	1
2025	Party realignment and single-issue voters	PLoS ONE	article	1
2025	The political economy of fiscal responsibility	Public Choice	article	1
2019	Politika proti dominanci	—	book	1
2011	Containment and Democratic Cosmopolitanism	—	article	1
2004	Aspiraciones grupales y política democrática	Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja)	article	1
2003	ǂThe ǂmoral Foundations of Politics	—	book	1
2003	The State of Democratic Theory	—	book	1
1999	Contemporary Political Theory	—	book	1
1992	Workmanship revisited: Reply to Professor Murphy	Political Theory	article	1
2019	Reply to Ackerly, Boyte, Fishkin, Levine, and Warnke	The Good Society	article	0
2017	Directing democracy	The Yale Review	article	0
2008	A global response to terrorism	The International Spectator	article	0
2019	The Bretton Woods Agreement	—	edited volume	—
2018	The NATO Charter	—	edited volume	—
2016	Readings on The Moral Foundations of Politics	—	edited volume	—
2015	On Democracy	—	book	—
2014	The United Nations Charter	—	edited volume	—
2011	The social sciences and the financial crisis: Reflections on recent trends	—	article	—
2010	Power shift in Congress and its potential impact on the foreign policy of the Obama administration	Вестник Московского университета. Серия 25. Международные о…	article	—
2009	PLSC 287/EPE 411/LAW 21578	—	article	—
2009	The Federalist Papers	—	edited volume	—
2008	Contención y cosmopolitismo democrático	Foro Internacional	article	—
2007	A better strategy against terror	—	article	—
2005	The Flight From Reality: A response to Mackie, Hochschild, and Laitin	—	article	—
2004	Democratic Justice: Two Approaches (continuation and end)	Raisons politiques	article	—
2004	Intellectual Diversity in Political Science: A Comment on Laitin	—	article	—
2004	Two Approaches to Democratic Justice	Raisons politiques	article	—
2003	South Africa's Negotiated Transition: Democracy, Opposition, and the New	—	article	—
1999	NOMOS XLI: Global Justice	—	edited volume	—
1997	Les" pathologies du choix rationnel" aux États-Unis: un pavé dans la mare?	—	article	—
1996	政治学における合理的選択理論--理解深化を妨げる病理 (特集合理的選択理論とその批判)	レヴァイアサン	article	—
1995	The Other Game or the Rational Choice Approach to Football	PS Political Science & Politics	article	—
1994	Varieties of liberal ideology	Polis The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Tho…	article	—
1993	A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society	World Politics	article	—
1993	To Craft Democracies: An Essay on Democratic Transitions	World Politics	article	—
1991	Democracy in the transition from communism to capitalism	—	article	—
1990	Constitutionalism and Democracy. Jon Elster , Rune Slagstad	Ethics	article	—
1990	James Tully, ed. , Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and his Critics . Reviewed by	Philosophy in Review	article	—
1985	Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge. By David Bloor. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Pp. xi + 213. $25.00, cloth; $12.00, paper.)	American Political Science Review	article	—

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