Ian Shapiro makes a compelling case that the overriding purpose of politics should be to combat domination. Moreover, he shows how to put resistance to domination into practice at home and abroad. This is a major work of applied political theory, a profound challenge to utopian visions, and a guide to fundamental problems of justice and distribution.
тАЬShapiroтАЩs insights are trenchant, especially with regards to the Citizens United decision, and his counsel on how the тАШstatus-quo biasтАЩ in national political institutions favors the privileged. After more than a decade of imperial overreach, his restrained account of foreign policy should likewise find support.тАЭ
тАФScott A. Lucas, Los Angeles Review of Books
тАЬShapiro has a brief and compelling section on the importance of hope in his first chapter. This book enacts and encourages hope, with its analytical clarity, deep engagement of complicated political issues that resist easy theorizing, and emphasis on the politically possible.тАЭ
тАФKathleen Tipler, Political Science Quarterly
тАЬOffers important insights for thinking about democracyтАЩs prospects.тАЭ
тАФChristopher Hobson, Perspectives on Politics