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Apr 29, 2010 · Unlike for Locke and his contemporary followers, however, coercive power is not a secondary feature of the civil state, necessary to back up laws. According to Kant, coercion is part of the idea of rights.
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Jan 22, 2021 · According to much of self-labelled coercion theory, the state is both the ground of egalitarian demands of distributive justice, and the (sole) domain to which such demands apply, in virtue of its exercise of coercive power which only distributive equality can justify.
- Miriam Ronzoni
- 2021
Feb 10, 2006 · By contrast with Hobbes, Locke, or Kant, Mill recognizes that the power of civil institutions is frequently on a par with the power of the state, and treats the potential for coercion by these other institutions as similarly a matter of concern.
Dec 14, 2011 · States are not necessarily coercive or coercive (by definition. Their claimed authority is prior to the force they wield. Legitimate states should need to resort to coercion and force much less than other states, and that fact seems unappreciated in contemporary political thought.
- Christopher W. Morris
- 2012
Jan 12, 2016 · When understood together in this way, political society and civil society demonstrate that at the heart of the capitalist state exists a dialectic between domination and hegemony, coercion and consent, and harder and softer forms of power.
- Joe Penny
- 2017
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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Rawls's belief in the coercive nature of political power appears to be significant for his liberal theory. It is one of two special features of “constitutional regimes” central to his influential conception of political legitimacy.
