@inbook{5721bca201eb45a3bd1e1d26cc6826f9,
title = "The Good, The Bad, and the Puzzled: Coercion and Compliance",
abstract = "The assumption that coercion is largely responsible for our legal systems{\textquoteright} efficacy is a common one. I argue that this assumption is false. But i do so indirectly, by objecting to a thesis i call “(compliance),” which holds that most citizens comply with most legal mandates most of the time at least partly in virtue of being motivated by legal systems{\textquoteright} threats of sanctions and other unwelcome consequences. The relationship between (compliance) and the efficacy of legal systems is explained in sect. 2. There i also show that (compliance) must be rejected for it relies on unsubstantiated empirical assumptions. In sect. 3, i claim that an alternative and more refined formulation of (compliance) also lacks adequate support. I conclude with a few general remarks about the centrality of coercion in our thought and talk about legal systems.keywordscoercioncomplianceobedienceefficacypractical differencegeneral jurisprudence.",
author = "{Miotto Lopes}, Lucas",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2021",
month = sep,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-78803-2_7",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-78802-5",
series = "Law and Philosophy Library",
publisher = "Springer Nature Switzerland AG",
pages = "111--129",
editor = "Jorge Fabra and {Villas Rosas}, Gonzalo",
booktitle = "Conceptual Jurisprudence: Methodological Issues, Conceptual Tools, and New Approaches",
address = "Switzerland",
}