@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.",
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",
}