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Coercion and the State

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. David A. Reidy

    1. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

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  2. Walter J. Riker

    1. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

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Part of the book series: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice (AMIN, volume 2)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. What is Coercion?

    1. Introduction

      • David A. Reidy, Walter J. Riker
      Pages 1-14

    2. How Did There Come To Be Two Kinds of Coercion?

      • Scott A. Anderson
      Pages 17-29

    3. On Coercion

      • Burton M. Leiser
      Pages 31-43

    4. Undue Influence as Coercive Offers in Clinical Trials

      • Joan McGregor
      Pages 45-59

  3. Coercion and the State: Justification and Limits

    1. Coercion, Justice, and Democracy

      • Alistair M. Macleod
      Pages 63-75

    2. Democratic Legitimacy and the Reasoned Will of the People

      • Walter J. Riker
      Pages 77-94

    3. John Brown's Duties: Obligation, Violence, and ‘Natural Duty’

      • Christian T. Sistare
      Pages 95-112

  4. Coercion and the State: Legal Powers and Status

    1. Coercion, Neutrality, and Same-Sex Marriage

      • Emily R. Gill
      Pages 115-127

    2. The Cheshire Cat: Same-Sex Marriage, Religion, and Coercion by Exclusion

      • Kenneth Henley
      Pages 129-143

  5. Coercion and the State: National Security

    1. Indefinite Detention for Mega-Terrorists?

      • Don E. Scheid
      Pages 147-159

    2. The Great Right: Habeas Corpus

      • Wade L. Robison
      Pages 161-173

  6. Coercion and the International Order

    1. Coercion Abroad for the Protection of Rights

      • Steven P. Lee
      Pages 177-188

    2. Transnational Power, Coercion, and Democracy

      • Carol C. Gould
      Pages 189-202

    3. A Developmental Approach to the Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions

      • Monica Hlavac
      Pages 203-223

    4. Global Economic Justice, Partiality, and Coercion

      • Bruce Landesman
      Pages 225-238

    5. International and Cosmopolitan Political Obligations

      • Helga Varden
      Pages 239-250

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 251-258
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A signal feature of legal and political institutions is that they exercise coercive power. The essays in this volume examine institutional coercion with the aim of trying to understand its nature, justification and limits. Included are essays that take a fresh look at perennial questions – what, if anything, can legitimate state exercises of coercive force? What is coercion in politics and law? – and essays that take a first or nearly first look at newer questions – may the state coercively hold certain terrorists indefinitely? Does the state coerce those seeking to join in same-sex marriage when it refuses to extend legal recognition to same-sex marriage? Can there be a just international order without some agency possessed of the final and rightful authority to coerce states? Leading scholars from philosophy, political science and law examine these and related questions shedding new light on an apparently inescapable feature of political and legal life: Coercion.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

    David A. Reidy

  • Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

    Walter J. Riker

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