Coordination Cannot Establish Political Authority

Ratio Juris 31 (1):49-69 (2018)
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Abstract

One of the most common arguments in favour of the state's authority is that without the coordinating hand of political institutions, we could not achieve important moral benefits. I argue that if we understand authority correctly, then coordination cannot even in principle establish that coordinators have political authority.

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Matthias Brinkmann
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München

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