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Coercion, Authority and Democracy

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16883-3

ISBN: 978-3-031-16882-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 1, 2022

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Chapter 1Introduction

Booker, Grahame

Pages: 1 –7

[In this work I argue that the state is a coercive order and that much of its use of coercion is unjustified. Many assume that the first claim that the state is coercive is quite uncontroversial.]
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Chapter 2Coercion

Booker, Grahame

Pages: 9 –47

[We reviewed several prominent accounts of coercion, beginning with Nozick’s well-known essay, where he proceeds from the necessary and sufficient conditions for standard cases of coercion to the more difficult ones of distinguishing threats from offers or warnings. In the second part we took up...
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Chapter 3Authority

Booker, Grahame

Pages: 49 –151

[Throughout this chapter we question the supposed need for authoritative solutions to problems such as coordinationcoordination, enforcement and prisoners’ dilemmasprisoners’ dilemma of one sort or another. As Edmundson agrees, the class of malum prohibitummalum prohibitumlawslaw, which comprise...
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Chapter 4Democracy

Booker, Grahame

Pages: 153 –238

[To determine how democracydemocracy might be called upon to underwrite the authority of the statestate, we began with Peter Singer’sSinger, Peter discussion (1974), where he considers three possible modes of governmentgovernment for his model common room association, ranging from the autocratic...
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Chapter 5The Non-fallacy of Anarchism

Booker, Grahame

Pages: 239 –267

[While EdmundsonEdmundson, William A. appears to have taken the role of democracydemocracy as a source of authority largely for granted, in our concluding discussion we pick up the thread of his argument again, paying particular attention to the third of the fallacies which anarchism allegedly...

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