Playing fair : political obligation and the problems of punishment / Richard Dagger.

"While much has been written on both political obligation and the justification of punishment, including numerous essays in recent years that approach one or the other topic in fair-play terms, there has been no sustained effort to link the two in a fair-play theory of political obligation and punis...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in penal theory and philosophy.
Main Author: Dagger, Richard (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Series:Studies in penal theory and philosophy.
Subjects:
Political obligation.
Civil society.
Punishment > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
LAW / Jurisprudence.
Physical Description:xii, 300 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
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  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I Political Obligation as Fair Play
  • 1. Political Obligation: Concepts and Challenges
  • 2. Fair Play and Cooperative Practices
  • 3. Fair Play and Its Rivals
  • 4. Political Obligation as Fair Play: Elaboration and Defense
  • Part II Punishment as Fair Play
  • 5. Justifying Punishment: Concepts and Challenges
  • 6. Playing Fair with Punishment: Elaboration and Defense
  • 7. Punishing Fairly
  • Part III Fair Play and the Polity
  • 8. Authority, Deference, and Fair Play
  • 9. Political Obligation, Punishment, and the Polity
  • Index.