Playing Fair: Political Obligation and the Problems of Punishment

by Richard Dagger

Book Overview

While much has been written on both political obligation and the justification of punishment, there has been little sustained effort to link the two.

In Playing Fair, Richard Dagger aims to fill this gap and provide a unified theory of political obligation and the justification of punishment that takes its bearings from the principle of fair play. To do this, he first establishes the principle of fair play-the idea that people in a cooperative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199388830
• ISBN13: 9780199388837
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"