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Coercion, Authority and Democracy - Towards an Apolitical Order (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Coercion, Authority and Democracy - Towards an Apolitical Order (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
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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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