Capa

THE PROBLEM OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY IBD

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
10 / 2012
9781349448241
Inglês

Sinopse

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 illusion: no one has ever possessed that sort of authority.