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
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 Anarchical Fallacies
"Richard Dagger, for the first time, presents both a theory of
political obligation and a theory of punishment under the principle
of fair play. Forceful arguments on the two subjects combine for a
powerful overall theory." -- George Klosko, Henry L. and Grace
Doherty Professor of Politics, University of Virginia
"Playing Fair expertly canvasses a number of debates on the
justification of political obligation and the justification of
punishment in order to develop a unified account of these two
problems. Dagger's arguments are compelling and elegantly
presented. This is a timely and important book." -- Massimo Renzo,
King's College London
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