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Coercion is typically thought to carry with it several important implications, including that it diminishes the targeted agent's freedom and responsibility, and that it is a (pro tanto) wrong and/or violation of right.
Feb 10, 2006 · Coercion is typically thought to carry with it several important implications, including that it diminishes the targeted agent’s freedom and responsibility, and that it is a (pro tanto) wrong and/or violation of right.
Aug 24, 2019 · Coercion can affect positive freedom only in the sense that our will cannot supply the appropriate motive for an action we did not choose. However, coercion – indeed, any external influence – cannot touch the choice-making capacity that determines the motives of our actions.
- Benjamin L. McKean
- 2019
Dec 22, 2011 · Thus, my aim here is to explain why coercion is wrong when it's wrong without appealing to the effects acts of coercion have on the coerced individual. My initial focus will be a class of actions that, it is generally agreed, is wrong and counts as coercion: conditional threats to do wrong.
- Benjamin Alan Sachs
- 2013
Coercion is a highly effective form of power but a costly one. Max Weber's famous definition of the state as a 'human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory' implies that the state exercises more than a single form of power.
After distinguishing between authority and coercion as two major forms of power, I show that authority is central to variations in sovereignty, hegemonic orders, the conflict between developed and developing states, and the current debate over failed states and international trusteeship.
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Coercion is understood as either having no choice or as having no acceptable choice. Manipulation is the steering or influencing of the choices of others by means that might be morally problematic (though not necessarily wrong in all cases).
