The Problem of Political Authority
Subtitle: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Number of pages: 365
Description: The state is often ascribed a special sort of authority, one that obliges citizens to obey its commands and entitles the state to enforce those commands through threats of violence. This book argues that this notion is a moral no one has ever possessed that sort of authority.