Download or read book Coercion and the State written by David A. Reidy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A signal feature of legal and political institutions is that they exercise coercive power. The essays in this volume examine institutional coercion with the aim of trying to understand its nature, justification and limits. Included are essays that take a fresh look at perennial questions. Leading scholars from philosophy, political science and law examine these and related questions shedding new light on an apparently inescapable feature of political and legal life: Coercion.