This paper gives an overall presentation of shakedown theorems in perfect and in hardening plasticity. General results on shakedown theorems are discussed in the framework of generalized standard materials. The starting point is a static shakedown theorem available for perfect and for hardening plasticity. It leads by min-max duality to the dual static and kinematic approaches to compute the safety coefficient with respect to shakedown. These approaches are discussed for common models of isotropic and of kinematic hardening. In particular, the kinematic approach leads to some new results on the expressions of the safety coefficient.