@article{1450879,
      recid = {1450879},
      author = {Booker, Grahame.},
      title = {Coercion, authority and democracy : towards an apolitical  order /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2022},
      abstract = {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 states 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. Grahame Booker is an independent researcher. He  completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Canada and  was Adjunct Assistant Professor in Political Philosophy. He  has published in the International Journal of Prices and  Markets and been a reviewer for the Canadian Journal of  Philosophy and the Journal of Libertarian Studies.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1450879},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16883-3},
}