Coercion as Enforcement, and the Social Organisation of Power Relations: Coercion in Specific Contexts of Social Power
Coercion as Enforcement, and the Social Organisation of Power Relations: Coercion in Specific Contexts of Social Power
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作为执行的强制,以及权力关系的社会组织:特定社会权力背景下的强制
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2016
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Scott A. Anderson
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Scott A. Anderson
Many recent theories of coercion broaden the scope of the concept coercion by encompassing interactions in which one agent pressures another to act, subject to some further qualifications. I have argued previously that this way of conceptualizing coercion undermines its suitability for theoretical use in politics and ethics. I have also explicated a narrower, more traditional approach—“the enforcement approach to coercion”—and argued for its superiority. In this essay, I consider the prospects for broadening this more traditional approach to cover some cases that don’t seem to fit this approach, but nonetheless seem coercive, such as the demands routinely made on people by credit card companies, demands on students by higher educational institutions, and demands made by European financial institutions on the government of Greece. I analyze the similarities and differences of these compared to more central cases of coercion, discussing what lessons can be drawn from this analysis.