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...
Richard Dagger is E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law at the University of Richmond. He is the author of Civic Virtue: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism.
'Do we have a duty to obey the law?' and 'What gives us the right to punish?' are two pressing yet seemingly separate questions. Richard Dagger connects them more clearly than anyone else has. Both are, he explains, a matter of fairness. Agree or not, after reading Dagger you will see these perennial questions in a fresh light." -- William A. Edmundson, Georgia State University, and author of Three...
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