ISBN : 9780199388837
In Playing Fair, Richard Dagger provides a unified theory of political obligation and the justification of punishment that takes its bearings from the principle of fair play. Dagger argues that members of a just polity have an obligation to obey its laws because they have an obligation of reciprocity or fair play to one another.
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
