Overview
- Studies how a distinct feature of the state is its police or coercive power
- Considers how democracy has been thought to provide justification for coercion or authority
- Is of interest to academics and students of political philosophy
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism (PASTCL)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Classical liberalism has typically sought to maintain as much room as possible for the exercise of personal initiative in the face of the encroachment of states. This book explores these questions of coercion and authority in the context of the size and scope of the state and argues that the state and its agents should be held to the same moral rules as are the individuals it rules over. The book considers how a distinct feature of the state is its police or coercive power, about which one may ask how the state acquires it and what if anything would justify its use. It considers the implication that there is nothing inherent about state agents that entitles one to behave in ways that we would not accept from a private actor, and how once that argument is made, the state’s claim to authority is weakened. The author also discusses the extent to which democracy has been thought to provide any sort of justification for coercion or authority. This book will be of interest to academics and students of political philosophy, especially classical liberalism, and legal philosophy.
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Book Title: Coercion, Authority and Democracy
Book Subtitle: Towards an Apolitical Order
Authors: Grahame Booker
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16883-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16882-6Published: 01 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-16885-7Published: 02 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-16883-3Published: 31 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-6470
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6489
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 300
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economics, general, Public Economics, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Law and Economics