Wertheimer attempts to move beyond previous theories of coercion
by conducting a fairly extensive survey of the way in which cases
involving coercion have been treated by American courts. This
impressive project occupies the first half of the book, where he
makes a convincing case that there is a fairly unified 'theory of
coercion' at work in adjudication, past and present. This legal
theory, however, is not entirely adequate for the purposes of
social and political philosophy, and the last half of the book
develops Wertheimer's more comprehensive philosophical theory.
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